{"id":3795,"date":"2018-05-01T11:45:36","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T18:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/?p=3795"},"modified":"2024-09-18T15:12:47","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T22:12:47","slug":"hot-air-comes-out-of-left-vents-with-ac-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/hot-air-comes-out-of-left-vents-with-ac-on.html","title":{"rendered":"Hot Air Comes Out of Left Vents With AC On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The summer is coming and my A8 D3 AC blows hot air out of all the left vents, front and rear: Center console, pillar vent while the right side is cold. Using the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2KrxHHn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><button class=\"w3-button w3-green w3-round-xlarge\">AC Manifold Gauge<\/button><\/a> I could see the pressure of both low and high are still good, although on the low side.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The main reason for this problem is the low freon and air in the system somehow, I did fix it by evacuated system and charge with new freon 620g+\/-20g = 21~22 oz = less than <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2Kormfz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2-12oz cans<\/a>. Don&#8217;t over charge the system.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"igallery\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"AC pressure Chart with Temperatures\" href=\"\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/temp_charts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3796\" src=\"\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/temp_charts-200x112.jpg\" alt=\"AC pressure Chart with Temperatures\" width=\"200\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Low &amp; High Pressure Engine OFF\" href=\"\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_IMG_1887.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3797\" src=\"\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_IMG_1887-200x112.jpg\" alt=\"Low &amp; High Pressure Engine OFF\" width=\"200\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a title=\"Low and High Pressure Engine AC On\" href=\"\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_P1380567.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3798\" src=\"\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_P1380567-200x112.jpg\" alt=\"Low and High Pressure Engine AC On\" width=\"200\" height=\"112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_P1380567-200x112.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_P1380567-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_P1380567-100x56.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_P1380567.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Low &amp; High Pressure Engine OFF\" href=\"\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_IMG_1888.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3799\" src=\"\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_IMG_1888-200x112.jpg\" alt=\"Left Pillar Vent Hot Air\" width=\"200\" height=\"112\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/a> <a class=\"preview\" title=\"Left Center Vent Hot Air while the Right is cold\" href=\"\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_IMG_1889.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3800 size-thumbnail\" src=\"\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-content\/uploads\/z_IMG_1889-200x112.jpg\" alt=\"Left Center Vent Hot Air while the Right is cold\" width=\"200\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>The temperature outside was 65-67F, the pressure on both sides were good but still NOT working until we evacuate and charge the system fully.<\/em><br \/>\n<div class=\"youtube-player\" data-id=\"p6WqJkchPWQ\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.audiworld.com\/forums\/a8-s8-d3-platform-discussion-60\/its-my-turn-left-rear-left-vents-hot-right-side-cold-2946211\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><button class=\"w3-button w3-blue w3-round-xlarge\">My Audiworld Thread on this<\/button><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul class=\"lcp_catlist\" id=\"lcp_instance_0\"><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The summer is coming and my A8 D3 AC blows hot air out of all the left vents, front and rear: Center console, pillar vent while the right side is cold. Using the I could see the pressure of both low and high are still good, although on the low side. The main reason for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/hot-air-comes-out-of-left-vents-with-ac-on.html\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,464],"tags":[786,785,787,784,262],"class_list":["post-3795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a8-d3","category-ac-air-conditioning","tag-ac-evacuate","tag-freon-charging","tag-heating-and-air-conditioning","tag-hvac","tag-r134a"],"views":1798,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3795"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5492,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3795\/revisions\/5492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/audi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}