Driving expert Stanislav Panin toldwhat happens if you turn on the air conditioning system in the freezing season.
According to him, you can safely use the air conditioning in the winter. It won’t ruin it in any way. However, the equipment may behave differently on specific vehicles.
Depending on the specific car model, pressure and temperature sensors have different priorities. For example, on many machines, the control unit is guided by the readings from the external temperature sensor. If the car enters a heated garage due to frost, then even if the pressure in the system physically rises to the operating range, it will take a little more time for the electronic “brain” to realize the real, and not temporary, change in environmental conditions and give it green light to turn on the compressor, the expert explained.
Some machines have the system trained not to turn on if the temperature is below zero, and on others, the air conditioning compressor will turn on if it’s slightly below zero outside.
Service specialists recommend regularly running the cooler in winter so that the metal pressure plate of the compressor clutch does not acidify.
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