AC Stops as it should during hard acceleration but won't reset

sak54757 · Post by **sak54757** » 26 Aug 2020, 12:43

Hi all I have a venerable 2001 xc70 almost 200,000 miles on it, hopefully I can double that...
So, Air Conditioner works fine until I have to stomp on it, or, if i have a load, mildly accelerate, Then it shuts off and will not come back on until I turn the car off and back on. I assume whatever relay shuts off the compressor is not automatically resetting. Is this part of one of the many modules or is there an actual relay that does this?

Post by **mkc1** » 26 Aug 2020, 14:51

Could be a clutch gap issue.

sak54757 · Post by **sak54757** » 26 Aug 2020, 15:14

ahh, didn't think mechanical, I will go make it misbehave and watch the clutch, Thanks!

sak54757 · Post by **sak54757** » 28 Aug 2020, 17:42

mkc1 spot on! The gap was so large i'm amazed it worked at all! Thanks!

Post by **mkc1** » 08 Sep 2020, 09:19

sak54757 wrote: 28 Aug 2020, 17:42 mkc1 spot on! The gap was so large i'm amazed it worked at all! Thanks!

Glad it helped....I've recently been dealing with it myself and fixed for now with cable ties.

sak54757 · Post by **sak54757** » 08 Sep 2020, 09:23

LOL, me too! The idea of removing everything was too much and winter is almost here!