Hello All,
My car too has been victim of urban flooding, I DIY'ed the interior, washed the carpet and uprooted everything myself, I even took off the front bumper to sort out leaves stuck in the condenser. Back to New.
Only issue is the AC.
I no longer have functioning AC. The car sat for a week after the whole water incident, (while I worked on the interior) , I started a few time to move the car but did not turn on the AC (in fear of the debris getting sucked further into the condenser/radiator) Now I got the condenser washed and cleaned so no more debris, I turned on the ac but there was no cooling. There was some cooling for a second when I was acelerating hard. But overall no AC.
Now I must mention that this car Is a VX version hence no factory AC, we had the driver get the AC installed and afaik, the compressor is an older sander unit. I have noticed that idle sounds a little off, and the sound is coming from the compressor bearing (this is before the compressor clutch engages), so it sounds a little off. Now I also must mention, the cooling overall is very dismal and during peak heat the ac is barely working, (my old cultus performs much better inn peak heat) now this is not the case for the other altos I have sat in that seem to have perfectly good AC. Chilled even.
As of now there is no cooling at all. What do I do and will I have to change the compressor? How much is a new genuine compressor?
