Was stopped at a red light after grabbing coffee this morning and looks like my heat pump finally failed like many others on this forum. Luckily my heating still works for now, but I'm guessing the car has detected an imminent failure somewhere thus prompting the error code. My error code is slightly different than the other threads I've seen on here: "VCFRONT_a531" is what I have vs. "VCFRONT_a447". Not sure it makes any difference though.
Requested service on the app and within 15 min already had the following estimate to replace the entire heat pump it looks like. Parts won't be in til next week so I'll have to wait til around Christmas to get it fixed. I'm guessing this is a very labor intensive process and will take a few days. Thankfully it failed now vs. later as I'm at 47k miles, just shy of being out of warranty! Probably at least a few thousand dollar fix out of warranty I'm guessing...
Requested service on the app and within 15 min already had the following estimate to replace the entire heat pump it looks like. Parts won't be in til next week so I'll have to wait til around Christmas to get it fixed. I'm guessing this is a very labor intensive process and will take a few days. Thankfully it failed now vs. later as I'm at 47k miles, just shy of being out of warranty! Probably at least a few thousand dollar fix out of warranty I'm guessing...