Air Con Failure: Compressor to blame? Petition to VW if enough peeps experienced

[Rhyso]

Sorry to drag this slightly OT but are MK4 A/C compressors prone to this noise and subsequent failure also?

Thanks in advance.

Not sure if its exactly the same but certainly MK4's with Climatronic suffered a lot of problems with the air con system 

Thanks mate, every TDI 150 I've seen rattles from the comp - an no it's notnthe idler 

Get a 130 with manual air con instead, whack up the boost and it will be quicker than any 150 this side of a turbo rebuild

[dTEA]

Mines just died. Its in with the garage now so not looking farward to what they find or the cost.

By the way has anyone bought one of these http://www.sinspeed.co.uk/store/volkswagen-golf-mk5-air-conditioning-compressor.html

Rhyso your DAMN straight on the manual air con...this constant 2% is b0ll0x

But back on topic, yeah I think the guys over at www.mk5golfgti.co.uk were saying this but also german eBay. Do a search over there as loads more peeps posting about it.

[The Doc]

Mines just died. Its in with the garage now so not looking farward to what they find or the cost.

By the way has anyone bought one of these http://www.sinspeed.co.uk/store/volkswagen-golf-mk5-air-conditioning-compressor.html

Seems good value for an AC compressor.

Dose anyone know what actually fails?

[tech1889]

I don't know what fails but I know I need a new one   

[dTEA]

Mines just died. Its in with the garage now so not looking farward to what they find or the cost.

By the way has anyone bought one of these http://www.sinspeed.co.uk/store/volkswagen-golf-mk5-air-conditioning-compressor.html

Seems good value for an AC compressor.

Dose anyone know what actually fails?

apparently there is a set of bearings relating to a form of clutch that seize. They say the clutch can be replaced but it costs as much as the compressor anyway so they usually replace the whole lot. The earlier models used 2 certain brands that were prone but the later ones are more robust...

[isitme]

Forgot to post but mine has died and the garage has asked for £1350 to fix it.

To be honest this it the second major fault (the previous was a turbo failure) along with numerous small niggles with the car and i don't think it'll be with me much longer. My first VW and sadly looks as though its my last. In 15 years of motoring i've owned 4 cars myself and had 6 through work and I have never had so many problems with a car, not even from my daewoo lanos. Its rediculous the GTI has only done 31K for crying out load.

Anyway i feel better after a bit of a rant.

[dTEA]

German build quality ain't what it used to be. You want it to last buy Jap but then they all loom dated after 4yrs IMO. ace to drive tho. In gems of the golf try an indie garage if you want to fix and sell on. It'll save £100s off the bill. I'm still arguing the toss with VW at the mo tho. Waiting on final resolution.

[simonkit]

 Mine had failed when the dealer sold it to me so much for their multi-point check!!

 Fixed under warranty after some debate as to it being the compressor, re-gassed system and charged me for it at first - mines a 58 plate

 Simon

[dTEA]

Well gotta say after much wrangling and back and forth, both the dealership and VW have covered 100% labour and 70% parts. It's booked in for Wednesday next week so hopefully it'll be worth it with the weather  but couldn't have asked for more from them both TBH. 

[isitme]

dTEA,  How long did it take for VW to get back to you?

As an aside, i have had a few developments with my air con. It turns out that the VW garage that gave me the initial quote have added some 'extra' parts to the list of those that, they said, required replacing. None of the air con specialists or even another VW dealer (both of them are same group of garages by the way) could identify or see why anything else would need replacing. This seems to mean that nearly £300 has been added to the bill for parts that either don't exist or are not required. In addition the other VW dealer also said that they would expect a contribution from VW on this as they have had in the past and would have asked for one without prompting from me.

I am obviously going to be writing to them for an explanation of this.

This is on top of the same VW dealer, the one that appears to be trying to rip me off, measuring my tyres at the time of an air con service (the one that started all this) at three on 4 mm one at 2 mm. Then the next week after a whopping 150 miles they then failed my MOT for illegal tyres.  I replaced them elsewhere (at half the price they wanted) and asked the garage who were replacing them to measure them accurately when they took them off. Guess what, three were at 4 mm and one at 2mm.

I know i should name and shame but i'll give them a fair chance to respond first and they won't have received the second letter yet. Needless to say i'm absolutely furious and will be pursuing them.