Refrigerant Question

[Alan Nguyen]

Tesla fixed my AC and said it there was a refrigerant leak (The AC was blowing warm air even though it was set to LO). They ran a bunch of tests on it and couldn’t find any leaks. I’m not sure what may have caused it based on the information that was communicated to me. They restored it to the proper level and told me to monitor to see if if it happens again. Anyone have any ideas or thoughts on the cause of the leak if Tesla themselves couldn’t figure it out?

 

[Jsch223]

You said there was a leak but couldn’t find a leak. Which is it? Typically they’d put dye in in it to find. Pretty easy and nothing a SC can’t do.

Is it possible it was low or over charged? Both would cause it to blow warm.

 

[rpiotro]

They should have put dye in it. And if they did and the system fails again it should be easy to find with a UV lamp. They usually do the first check with a sniffer but you need a pretty good leak for that to be effective.

 

[Randy-12]

One of my Nissan's had only hot air with the A/C on.
Dealer said that there was no freon in the system, they loaded it and I was fine for the 3 years I had the car.
It was noticed on day 2 of ownership. They said that the factory forgot to charge the system.

 

[rpiotro]

One of my Nissan's had only hot air with the A/C on.
Dealer said that there was no freon in the system, they loaded it and I was fine for the 3 years I had the car.
It was noticed on day 2 of ownership. They said that the factory forgot to charge the system.

That happens. Rare but it happens. Anything that can go wrong will.

 

[CaptainKrunch]

sounds like they did no diagnostic for leak finding at all