Originally posted by Nick Buol:
Originally posted by dbird:
i got a black contour, 96, V-6 engine.. when parked in a lot it gets hot.. the a/c in my car works correctly but the heat you have parking in the sun takes forever to cool the car.... you might not have a problem with the a/c at all..
its the car, black is the problem.... absorbs the heat..
that is why in the south the black an white police cars had a white top years ago to control some of the heat..... try parking under a tree.. when i have my contour in the garage
and use it there is no problem.. it just take some time to cool the car down when parked in the sun... where i live the temp. was like 82 degrees, but the heat index was over
100 degrees....very high humidity.........




After the car is sitting in my garage overnight, (cooled down) it still doesn't blow cold a/c. While the black color isn't helping any, I still think that it is an A/C issue, but thank you for stating the obvious. (seriously) Many times people look for the hard answer and miss the easy ones....




Is your suction/low-side line *cold* to the touch? A/C on, engine running for a minute or so. For an accurate measure, test it somewhere near the firewall. If it's cold, then there is some sort of problem with the blend door operation under the dash. If it's not cold, you might try doing what another poster suggested...using one of those recharge kits...but I've never used one. Do you just guess on the amount, with those? No actual performance readings, like with gauges or machines?

Can't help you much with those kits, but the instructions will probably tell you about introducing the freon into the system as a gas [can right-side up]...just common sense.

And if there is a stop-leak built-in, or included in the kit, don't use it. Don't know what that will do to your expansion tube, pressure switches, etc, but I know that the stop-leak fouls up and damages expensive A/C recovery/recharge equipment.