Not Cold Enough

Yesterday afternoon, Lisa and I were convoying to Sparks to take the Rolling Stone to Big O, as I wrote about yesterday. It was a warm-ish day, and the minivan had been sitting in the sun, so Lisa turned on the air conditioning. Initially, she reported that it was producing nice cold air. Unfortunately, after about five minutes, she announced that there was no cold air at all, and in fact it was producing cooler air on Vent than on A/C. So we stopped at USA Parkway and Lisa investigated. The A/C compressor turns when the switch is set to A/C, but it looks like all of the coolant leaked out. Again.

We contacted Wild West Chevrolet and reported the problem and made an appointment to return the minivan to them for them to investigate. Of course, we can't do that until the RV gets out of the shop after the brake job.

Considering that a major air conditioning repair was one of the many things we had the minivan in the shop to be done, I would have expected them to test it for leaks. But maybe they just pumped it full of coolant, turned it on, and when it made cold air, turned it off and called it a day.

I hope we can get this thing working before we really need the A/C regularly.