Citroen C5 Air Conditioner Problem

[Marthese Demicoli]

My is Citroen C5 year 2002  The car air conditioner stopped. I cannot find the problem When you put the AC on, you hear compresser starts and the blows start too but it work only for 1 mintures and everything cut off you can switch off sometime yes sometime no. When is no you have switch off the car and start it agian at that time itswitch on and let to swith off. What do you thing the problem is?

 

[mhedwig]

Are the cooling fans on the engine working when you switch on the air conditioner

[Marthese Demicoli]

The main fan yes it work but when it cut everything stops

[paul.h]

It could be the air con refrigerant level is too low to run for long so it needs regassing. Cost is around £50 at a dealer or other garage that does air con work, the old refrigerant is removed, a pressure/vacuum test is carried out to check there are no leaks and then the correct amount of fresh refrigerant is put back in. I had this done on both our C5s at about 7 years old.