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

[dTEA]

As per the title really.  How many MK5 owners have experienced Air Con failure and been told the Compressor is to blame, and had to dig deep to pay the usual £1000+ repair bill for something that appears to be an established fault?

Can you list the year ie. 05/06 etc and the year of repair?

Im saying all this due to this http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=197875.0

[Revcounter]

Air con compressor just failed on my MkV GTi -- indy VW engineer says compressor can only be bought from VW (£550), doesn't know of any reconditioned units. Is this what others have found? Or are recon compressors available??

Add my vote to the complaint to VW, my engineer knows its a regular fault after ~4 years due to the compressor running all the time, a daft design principle.

[dTEA]

Have a look on the mkvgti forum as a few people were selling second-hand and also recommending certain compressors. A few were saying it's the certain models seizing and others are fine?  VW are still refuting it's an issue despite a link to Germany VWs goodwill gestures being beyond the UKs

Either way good luck

[samhain1]

Mine is failing I am told, I have an ac leak but can't find where, but given the noise coming from the compressor at idle it is certainly heading down.

I think my garage will be able to source me one cheaper than the vw one and it would do the same job, anybody know what the alternative is to the vw one?

I have to say I will probably be keeping my 56 gti for 2-3 years so I need my ac working as I use it all the time

[samhain1]

Is the sanden pxe16 the preferred replacement pump?

Is it worth phoning up a vw garage to ask if this is something vw recognise needs repaired even outside warranty? Long shot I know

[dTEA]

The A/C is working continually at 2% so yeah you are always using it....hence the failures IMHO.

Loads of alternative options mkvgti.co.UK have best advice.

[isitme]

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

[The Doc]

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

Thanks in advance.

[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 

[The Doc]

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