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Automotive Air Conditioning Repair and Maintenance Services

If your vehicles blows only hot air from the vents or blows cold air sporadically, or loud noises coming from your system - all indicate the need for service or repairs to your vehicle's air conditioning system. Auto air conditioning may be damaged by leakage in the system, low level of coolant or refrigerants, clogging of the condensers, and/or failure of the vehicles air conditioner compressors. Major failures of your car's A/C system can be prevented with regular preventative checks and maintenance performed here at American Pride Automotive.

Major components of a automotive air conditioning system consists of the following:

Compressor - a belt driven pump responsible for compressing and transferring refrigerant gas. Once the refrigerant is drawn into the device, it is compressed and sent to the condenser where it then transfers the heat that is absorbed from the inside of the vehicle.
Condenser - A component that looks much like a small radiator. As hot compressed gasses enter into the top of a condenser, they cool off. As the gas cools, it condenses and exits the bottom of the condenser as a high pressure liquid.
Evaporator - primary duty is to remove heat from the inside of your vehicle. A secondary benefit is dehumidification. As warmer air travels through the aluminum fins of the cooler evaporator coil, the moisture contained in the air condenses on its surface.
Refrigerant Fluid - commonly referred too as Freon or R12, environmental laws for chloroflourocarbon emmissions have made the recharging and handling of an air conditioning system something that is to be performed only by authorized ASE certified automotive technicians.

American Pride Automotive's is a full-service certified air conditioning repair facility. Our ASE certified repair technicians perform a professional inspection of your vehicles air conditioning system, providing you with a complete analysis of its current condition and the estimated cost to repair. Whether your vehicle needs a simple air conditioning recharge, or a new compressor, we have the expertise to diagnose and perform any automotive A/C service.

Our A/C Performance Check services include the following:

Visually inspection of A/C components
Run performance testing
Leak testing using approved equipment
If a slow leak cannot be detected, a dye detection service may need to be performed.
A complete A/C retrofit for complete system failures.

Call today, 595-4100 to schedule an appointment for your vehicle and drive in comfort this summer!

American Pride Automotive services residents and businesses in the following Hampton Roads counties and cities of Yorktown - York County, Hampton, Newport News, Poquoson, Williamsburg, and Gloucester providing vehicle air conditioning repair, recharge and recycling.