Depending on where you live, your car’s air conditioning is either an infrequent luxury or a constant lifesaver. There could be no humans living in Arizona or Nevada without air conditioning. As a result, your air conditioning breaking can be anything from an inconvenience to a disaster.
But the thing about car parts is that they never break all at once. Sure, it can seem like it. But ask any mechanic and nine times out of ten they will tell you that all the signs for an issue were there long before the issue became an issue. Those signs were just ignored, either deliberately or on accident.
So, here are a few ways, by Gulf Breeze Automotive, to tell if your air conditioning is broken. This way, you can tell if it is about to happen.
Humidity in Your Air Conditioning
This one can be deceptive, as there are a lot of environmental reasons for it happening. What you will experience is a distinct feeling of humidity in the air blown out of your air conditioning’s vents. But while this is easy to identify in theory, in practice it can be a lot more tricky than that.
The factors that can make this confusing can include everything from the weather to your own personal hygiene. For instance, you usually need the air conditioning on hot days. One of the worst kinds of heat is the murky, muddy heat of high humidity environments.
Being in this sort of environment means that if your air conditioning is blowing air in from the outside then it will always be humid. The solution is to press the air circulation button. This will provide you with air that is filtered, meaning that there will be considerably less influence from outside. If your air is still humid, that means trouble.
The other way humidity can trick you is if you yourself are sweaty. If you are sweaty, then you might not feel the humidity from the air conditioning. So, be sure to judge it only after you have dried off.
Leaking Fluid
This symptom of air conditioning troubles can express itself in two ways. The first is leaking fluid from the vents themselves. This will either be flowing out in a trickle, as if your car was bleeding out of the AC vents or sputtering out as it blasts cool, wet air at you.
The second way this shows itself is by leaking out of the bottom of your car. This might not be as noticeable, as cars leak lots of fluids, not all of them disastrous.
The big difference here (and, in fact, with the humidity mentioned earlier) is that this fluid is coolant. Leaking coolant is not just bad for your car but breathing in vaporized coolant is bad for your health. So, go get these smells and sensations checked out as soon as they show themselves.
Fluid is good for your car. It is not good for your brain or lungs, so do not mess around with this part of cars. It can be easy to neglect air conditioning until it breaks. Do not neglect it. Get it fixed, and drive safe. Get it fixed at Gulf Breeze Automotive in Gulf Breeze FL.