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2000 Buick Le Sabre Limited will not blow cold air out ...

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2000 Buick Le Sabre Limited will not blow cold air out driver's side vents.

 

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2000 Buick Le Sabre 3.8 V6

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Evap Srvc, basic test on air dir. test passanger side temp control, taken motor out of driver side air mix door, manually rotated air mix door, still not getting cold on Driver side, air mix acuators are working.

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June 23 7:12 AM (15 hours and 17 minutes and 49 seconds later)
         
Reply to RIP's Post: 57K, we have removed the dash and gotten to the evaporator, the driver side is 85 degrees and the passenger side is 30 degrees. WE think we are on to something.
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June 23 9:40 AM (2 hours and 28 minutes and 13 seconds later)
         
REPLIEDCheck Mark

Here's the dilema, this HVAC (heating ventillation and air conditioning) system is fully automatic, and has self-diagnostic capabilities. In fact to correctly pinpoint a temperature differential problem, the HVAC module needs to be hooked up to factory software and the information downloaded. The data can be read, and all the blend doors and motors are tested thru the scan tool. If there is a temperatur malfunction, the system has most likely already set a pertaining diagnostic code in memory. This vehicle will at least need to have the codes scanned before you can go further. At this milage there isn't any common failures with the driver and passenger temp control, it might be even as simple as reprogramming the HVAC module, it could have lost it's programming and now is incorrectly calculating temperature on that side. Since you've removed the dash and are taking temperature readings, it's possible that there may be a restriction in the evaporator, or expansion valve, causing the a/c to inssuficiently cool on that side,but I havn't seen this condition, for a vehicle with such low miles.

-Rip




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June 23 9:55 AM (14 minutes and 20 seconds later)
         
Reply to RIP's Post: no codes were set - now you have seen it. Evaporator is clogged on one side.
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