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Model specific boards => Golf mk4 => Topic started by: Gabriel2202 on 19 December 2012, 00:30

Title: Air con removal / smaller belt
Post by: Gabriel2202 on 19 December 2012, 00:30
I am Looking to remove my air con system and wandering if anyone knows what belt size i can use for a 1.8t aum? Or even better a reg I can use at Ecp to get it? (Is it an agu that has no a/c)

Will there be any problems in terms of warning lights and will there be enough tension in the belt seeing as the a/c pulley is removed between power steering and alternator pulleys?

Title: Re: Air con removal / smaller belt
Post by: rockmonkey69 on 19 December 2012, 00:52
There will be no problems with warning lights
Title: Re: Air con removal / smaller belt
Post by: wotavudunn on 19 December 2012, 00:56
just ring euro car part ask the for a aux belt for your mk4 golf 1.8t and its a non air con model, there about £9-£13.
Title: Re: Air con removal / smaller belt
Post by: Gabriel2202 on 19 December 2012, 08:52
There will be no problems with warning lights

just ring euro car part ask the for a aux belt for your mk4 golf 1.8t and its a non air con model, there about £9-£13.

Cheers guys  :smiley:

Does anyone know if it will slip or not as the belt won't have as much contact with the alt and p/s pulleys as the a/c pulley is no longer there to pull the belt in, if that makes sense?  :huh:
Title: Re: Air con removal / smaller belt
Post by: rockmonkey69 on 19 December 2012, 10:25
It will be no different from the non aircon version from factory. The slack is taken up by the tensioner anyway. Belt wrap is more or less the same. If you look where the aircon pump is and imagine it gone with a shorter belt you can quite easily see how the belt should run.
Title: Re: Air con removal / smaller belt
Post by: Gabriel2202 on 19 December 2012, 10:43
It will be no different from the non aircon version from factory. The slack is taken up by the tensioner anyway. Belt wrap is more or less the same. If you look where the aircon pump is and imagine it gone with a shorter belt you can quite easily see how the belt should run.

Yeah the routes fine i was just worried about belt wrap, thanks man  :smiley:
Title: Re: Air con removal / smaller belt
Post by: davemk4 on 19 December 2012, 16:30
Im after a working aircon compressor if you take it off soonish let me know please
Title: Re: Air con removal / smaller belt
Post by: Prawny on 20 December 2012, 13:56
I removed my aircon too, just asked for a non aircon aux belt at TPS. AGU/AUM belts are the same. it's aircon or non aircon that's the difference.

Belt wrap is SLIGHTLY less, but I've not had any issues with it yet and no audible slip at all
Title: Re: Air con removal / smaller belt
Post by: wotavudunn on 20 December 2012, 21:17
my air con went soon as i brought my car