2007 A/C doesn't always start blowing air after hitting start button

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  1. james78

    james78 Junior Member

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    Sometimes when I hit the start button it takes a couple of minutes for the AC to start blowing air. I even tried stopping and shutting off and restarting but it still took a few minutes to start blowing. It doesn't do this all the time just evey now and then. Any ideas. thanks in advance.
     
    #1 james78, Sep 16, 2011
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    I think that the AC doesn't blow air until the heat exchanger/AC unit is the correct operating temperature for the setting you've selected. Otherwise, you'd get a blast of cold/hot air when you wanted it to be the other.

    It's actually quite nice of it, In my opinion.
     
    #2 Rae Vynn, Sep 17, 2011
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    firepa63 Former Prius Owner

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    If you have the AC set to Auto AC, it's normal for a delay.
     
    #3 firepa63, Sep 17, 2011
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    I know when I start thr car it takes a second or two for the blower to blow. When it does this it's minutes before the blower kicks in. I do keep it set on auto but I tryed manually turning the blower up, turn ac off and several other things and it does nothing. Then all of a sudden it kicks in.
     
    #4 james78, Sep 18, 2011
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    See my answer.
     
    #5 Rae Vynn, Sep 18, 2011
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