[s-cars] Re: S-CAR-List Digest, Vol 9, Issue 80

[Evan Desjardins]

Mike,

That's something that I've noticed with my car as well.  When the A/C 
is on, it sounds like a fighter-jet on the tarmac ready to take off.  
I've received several comments about it and more than a few "Why is 
your car so LOUD?"   I didn't figure out it was the A/C until I had the 
compressor off one day and the windows down and noticed how quiet the 
car was otherwise. The good news is, I don't notice it unless I'm 
outside of the car, and in some ways, the fighter-jet analogy just 
makes me smile.  Heh.

-Evan
//95 S6

On Jul 24, 2004, at 8:16 AM, s-car-list-request at audifans.com wrote:

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> Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 15:50:06 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Mike Claire <mclaire_us at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re:  [s-cars] A/C shutting down
> To: TOM GREEN <trgreen at comcast.net>, s-car-list at audifans.com
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> Thanks Tom and other listers who replied.  In a
> perverse way I guess this is good news - nothing to
> fix!  But it still surprises me that a car can be
> designed without sufficient cooling to survive in even
> 110 deg temps without having to resort to shutting
> down A/C.
>
> One more question about these A/C systems.  The
> compressor is LOUD.  A constant groan kind of like a
> dry power steering unit.  Is this normal too?  I guess
> I hope it is...
>
>
> Mike