So I tried to clean it maybe 2 weeks ago. I'm not sure if I really did anything. This gave me a pretty good look at the radiator and condenser. It seems a lot of the foam around the condenser is disintegrating. I've heard the lowest fins is where you get all your supercooling I think it was called. Well if the bottom half of my condenser looks like this, maybe this is why it's so bad? It looks like some air would still get through but it's pretty dinged up and there are also a lot of little rocks in it. I want to replace my HVB when it gets here before I think about taking it in to complain about it. Just to make sure that's not the reason why. The A/C has never been good since I've gotten the car. I found a little trick to make it blow cold instead of cool and it works 50/50. Manually recirc, low, 3 bar fan for about 2 minutes and it should feel ice cold and then you can max the fan. Thoughts? Higgins909
Just to be clear here in North Carolina my two generation 3s which look just like that are ice cold in 95 plus degree weather ice cold I'm telling you You get out of the car you'll pass out You're not careful better care of your butt in the house. So I don't know about super cooling and all that in the car system that's in every air conditioning system that's a measurement and what have you superheat and super cooling but my condensers on the two Gen 3s look exactly like this I spray them off with a hose every so often I don't even use coil cleaner or any of that just my garden hose and not too much of a straight stream as to pound on the fins these kind of fins cannot easily be straightened like with a fin straightener. So until one of mine develops a leak and is compromised I just leave them as long as air is getting through the condenser I don't think it's really mission critical that more air has to go through the bottom of the top. The side pieces of foam my Gen 3 has some side pieces of plastic that kind of help create a tunnel ram effect I guess for the air coming in the front on one of the cars I think that piece has been removed or broken from a light front end collision so it's missing and it's still ice cold almost is not been touched in the 250,000 miles that the car has on it we got the car at 140 I have topped up the air conditioning in that vehicle one time it took less than I don't know two or three shots pulls of the trigger whatever that was it still running perfectly The new condensers that you can get for some of these vehicles apparently there's problems with them they're made real small internal passages yada yada. So you want to make sure you get a replacement that's up to snuff I don't think you're cooling problem this coming from that condenser.
