Re: 2007 Ram 1500. A/C cold on right side, warm on drivers side
[Re: Kern Dog]
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05/04/17 12:09 AM
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I bet you broke a blend door in the HVAC system.
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Re: 2007 Ram 1500. A/C cold on right side, warm on drivers side
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05/11/17 09:44 PM
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cold on driver, warm on passenger is usually low charge. The opposite (warm L, cool R) is broken air door more common on the dual zone systems. Yes that right as I remember when some were low on freon doing what J-body said. I believe there may be a TSB about the air door problem as I remember fixing a few of them. I left the dealer in 2011 so its been a while since I worked on any. Ron
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Re: 2007 Ram 1500. A/C cold on right side, warm on drivers side
[Re: Kern Dog]
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05/20/17 04:48 AM
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How about details on the estimate. What were they replacing?
Even though you don't have the dual zone temperature control the box is still set up for it, just missing a few pieces and the controller.
The YouTube video you watched was for the recirculation/fresh air door replacement, not the blend air door.
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Re: 2007 Ram 1500. A/C cold on right side, warm on drivers side
[Re: Guitar Jones]
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05/21/17 06:09 AM
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How about details on the estimate. What were they replacing?
Even though you don't have the dual zone temperature control the box is still set up for it, just missing a few pieces and the controller.
The YouTube video you watched was for the recirculation/fresh air door replacement, not the blend air door. I think when the dealer service guys saw the age and miles on my truck, they didn't even bother to actually inspect the system. Friggin hacks...Not all high mileage vehicles are money pits The service "advisor" said they suggested all new actuators, doors, sensors and a recharge of the system even though the air blows quite cold on the right side. The drivers side airflow is about half of the right side and not cold at all. Every time I start it up and turn the fan nob on, a "thunk/fwap" sound occurs from the glove box area. My guess is that some type of door gets moved by the force of the fan. Tomorrow I am going to try removing the fan and take a look. If there is a broken door up there, it obviously is not doing its job anyway. Some mention that by removing the broken door, the truck loses the ability to move outside air. If the door is broken, it isn't sealing off anything anyway.
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Re: 2007 Ram 1500. A/C cold on right side, warm on drivers side
[Re: Kern Dog]
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05/21/17 07:52 AM
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Well, I see you had no problem immediately calling them hacks and jumping to conclusions that you obviously know zero about. I know jumping to conclusions is a favorite past time around Moparts but don't you guys ever get tired from all that jumping? It's a CYA thing. If you are going to pull the dash and the case to replace a door you may want to do them all at the same time because two months down the road another one breaks then you have to do it all over again. The dash has to come out to get the case out so it's a rather big job. The customer will always say "Why didn't you replace that when you were in there 2 months ago." You aren't going to want to pay that labor again are you? No of course not, you just paid it two months ago, that's why you get an estimate to replace everything in there. So now they are the bad guys again but in reality it's you the consumer that has driven us techs to do this. I don't want to fix it for free the second time. You can't win any more.
The system has to be discharged to get the case out and I can assure you, it's not full now unless it's recently been charged. So that is why you get to pay for the recharge.
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Re: 2007 Ram 1500. A/C cold on right side, warm on drivers side
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05/21/17 08:34 PM
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A good advisor would have explained the situation to you. Trust me we don't want to have to give estimates like that. We know we aren't going to get the job but even if you explain it to people and give them the option when it does break again guess what? Either me or the dealership is eating that repair so we just can't do it anymore.
I think you have a broken blend air door, you may also have a broken recirc/fresh air door as well. They are both common. You could always have the a/c system sucked out and pull the dash and case yourself.
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Re: 2007 Ram 1500. A/C cold on right side, warm on drivers side
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06/21/17 11:26 PM
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Well, I see you had no problem immediately calling them hacks and jumping to conclusions that you obviously know zero about. I know jumping to conclusions is a favorite past time around Moparts. Well, guess what? I took the truck to a trusted independent shop yesterday. They told me prior that they have rarely seen an A/C job run close to $2000. They said the highest they see is usually under $1500. I expected them to call today asking for authorization to fix it for that same number. At 11:15, they called to say that it was done and the bill was $162. Whaaat ??? The system only had .36 lbs of refrigerant in there. They found a leaky schrader valve and replaced it and added the 1.62 OEM amount of refrigerant. The actuators are fine, the blend doors, fan and switches are fine. The A/C blows cold air from both sides again. Yes, the guys at the Dealership were hacks. Maybe you could call them cheats, jerks, ripoff scammers, whatever. They never even looked at the truck. I found my invoice and the $2184 is scribbled in pen, not typed out. No itemized list of "needed parts" to replace, just a lazy effort on the part of a greedy, unscrupulous employee of a service department that I will never visit again.
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