Hi would you please further more specify what caused the problem and which components were affected and changed?
Tell us more @cheeters please
Mines got this too. Annoying whistling noise whilst driving on the motorway from 50 mph especially if it’s windy. If you turn off the auto climate control, the whistling disappears. Also on highest fan setting, annoying high pitch noise. Been told Ineos is looking into it. My guess the heat fan resistor is faulty (hedgehog) and the control unit which controls the flaps in the hvac system is slow, lazy and not closing properly. Sometimes the windscreen demister kicks in 10 seconds later.
You just have to love a forum with properly operating brain systems… lovely bit of reasoning.I have a working theory on this while waiting to see if @cheeters can add anything else.
At a PTO2 drive day I was told by an Ineos rep that the air conditioning system uses a engine coolant based heat exchanger instead of a standard condenser core in front of the radiator. I can't easily see a front mounted condenser so I went digging around. I think this (pic) is the A/C heat exchanger, mounted on the left/near side of the engine. It has A/C pressure lines and coolant hoses. The round canister could be the receiver dryer body. Can anyone confirm this is the A/C heat exchanger (condenser)?
Based on what @cheeters shared above: "An air-lock in ancillary system caused an overheating in an sensor causing the air con to be turned off and also the cooling fan to run."; an airlock in the coolant sub-circuit would degrade A/C operation because the gas temp on the outlet side would be high. The responsible computer would first try to compensate by running the cooling fan, but if that didn't resolve the overheat condition the A/C would probably be shut down to prioritise and protect engine cooling.
Eliminate the airlock and the operating temperature and A/C operation would return to normal.
Maybe...
It all comes down to that mysterious air lock. Has anyone a clue where it is?I have a working theory on this while waiting to see if @cheeters can add anything else.
At a PTO2 drive day I was told by an Ineos rep that the air conditioning system uses a engine coolant based heat exchanger instead of a standard condenser core in front of the radiator. I can't easily see a front mounted condenser so I went digging around. I think this (pic) is the A/C heat exchanger, mounted on the left/near side of the engine. It has A/C pressure lines and coolant hoses. The round canister could be the receiver dryer body. Can anyone confirm this is the A/C heat exchanger (condenser)?
Based on what @cheeters shared above: "An air-lock in ancillary system caused an overheating in an sensor causing the air con to be turned off and also the cooling fan to run."; an airlock in the coolant sub-circuit would degrade A/C operation because the gas temp on the outlet side would be high. The responsible computer would first try to compensate by running the cooling fan, but if that didn't resolve the overheat condition the A/C would probably be shut down to prioritise and protect engine cooling.
Eliminate the airlock and the operating temperature and A/C operation would return to normal.
Maybe...
Well the Ineos engineer that found it would know but I doubt that info has been shared outside Ineos Tech Support. I'm completely guessing here, but the A/C heat exchanger sits at the high point of a coolant sub-circuit loop so there is potential for trapped air in the heat exchanger during filling of the cooling system. Follow the coolant hoses and you'll see what I mean.
Yes, that bothers me too, like many others.
In the week since my AC was fixed it continues to perform as it should.
I have it too, but it wasn't there from the start.
