2008 civic air con - making odd noises

[heisthegaffer]

Hi all

Just had my civic serviced including an air con regas.

I was driving along and the car started to lurch and then there was a loud repetitive noise that at first I thought was the ABS. It was that kind of hammering noise.

It happened a few times so pulled over with engine running to inspect front drivers wheel to see if there was anything immediately obvious. I then Saw a squirt of gas.

The engine was running lumpily but when I turned the AC off it ran fine.

I drove a fee miles with no further symptoms. A mechanic pal of mine reckons the AC has been overfilled. I called the garage and they initially feel the air con has a leak.

Any further thoughts people? Do we think it's screwed?

[Willy Nilly]

If you have your air conditioning re gassed, that means it had a leak and lost the original gas. So, the question is, was the leak that the gas escaped from repaired? It's beyond the realms of possibilities that the compressor has failed.

[anonymous-user]

my mother had a breadvan civic (not sure what year, 04 or 05 perhaps?) that suddenly developed a similar loud banging noise when i drove it once , suddenly started when we were stuck in traffic on a hot day, it sounded terrible and i thought i had properly broken it, but it was the aircon compressor that had suddenly failed , new one was fitted and it was fine again.

Edited by anonymous-user on Wednesday 23 December 22:15

[heisthegaffer]

Hi all.

I took it to the garage who sorted it and it's been fine up until Tuesday when it did it again.

Will take it back to garage at some point. Its a bit odd.

They did say the battery is old and only operating at 57% so I wonder if this has an impact?