Air con stopped working.

[ianmb]

Car is a year old ,air con has suddenly stopped working.The first thing the dealership said was I bet a stone has gone through a pipe.
Looking at the front of the car I can not see how a stone could get through.
Wondering if anyone had a similar fault.

[SRGTD]

Ian; I’m assuming your car’s a mk8.5 GTI?

I can remember commenting on the forum when I first saw pictures of the mk8.5 GTI of how the lower grille design leaves the air con condenser (located immediately behind the lower grille) quite susceptible to damage from stones and other projectile road debris because of the large size of the honeycomb shaped holes in the grille. Associated pipe work attached to the condenser would be equally susceptible to damage. I dare say the a/c condenser and pipe work would be even more susceptible to damage on the mk8.5 Golf R as the lower grille holes are larger than they are on the GTI.

[Adam T7]

If the failure was total and sudden, I’d agree with condenser damage. Good luck for a quick fix given the current weather🤞

[DrG_GTi]

oddly i had the a couple of years ago with my mk8, but a soft reset of the infotainments sorted it out, i blamed buggy software

[ianmb]

Thank you for the reply’s turned out a stone had gone through the condenser,£850 worse off ,poor design for the front of car being so open.