A lot of hot air

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Comment by Zippin Pippin on November 25, 2009 at 11:52am

Do you have right hand drive?
I have left hand drive being in the USA and had an air conditioning problem when the car was brand new. I took a 3 hour drive during 100 degree F weather. I had to keep adjusting the a.c. down in temp finally to maximmum cool to be comfortable. I later read how to fix that on one of these sites. There is a sensor on the left hand side of MY passenger (rt. side of car) foot well up above the battery just below the dashboard.. The sensor is probably a temperature sensitive diode. It simply unplugs from the a.c. plenum. I unplugged mine and plugged it back in, problem solved. This must disturb the connection enough to clean the crimped wire connection to make it start working again. My guess is that the impedance is so low for this solid state device that it doesn't take much to iinterfere with it's ability to read temp. A lot of temp controllers have been replaced per the star computer's instruction when it is more likely to be the sensor connection, IMHO. Good luck. I am loving my fortwo. I hope our Mitsubishi power plants will outlast your 3 year lifespan. With the way the engine/powertrain disconnects from the car, they should be infinitely rebuildable, if the star commputer doesn't make that repair expensively impossible for the hobbiest. V.W.'s of the 60's were sooo recyclable and popular with tinkerers for that reason.
Happy Hollidays
Rich