no air conditioning

[Michael Mangone]

My ford C-max has 40,000 miles on it and the air just stopped working . The compressor does not even kick in . How sad I just came back to Ford as a life time buyer . VW is looking better and better.I hope it is just a fuse because I love my C-max . Doug

 

[BIG ROCCO]

I think an electrical problem, like a fuse or relay or switch, is likely, but please let us know what you learn- thx.

[Singoffpitch]

This happened to me, too. It would run, but would only blow hot air. Mine was due to a "leaky test port valve" that had to be replaced (took 2 days for repair since part is specialty for C-Max and had to be sent overnight).

[Kelleytoons]

In terms of the OP I'm not sure how anyone who talks about themselves as a "life time buyer" but immediately starts looking elsewhere when they have one problem after 40K could be considered a very valuable customer anyway (and we never found out what the issue was so I suspect it WAS just a fuse).

 

Folks need to act reasonable about their expectations.  Cars are ENORMOUSLY complicated mechanisms, with tens of thousands of parts (and several thousand moving parts).  To expect no issues over the lifetime of any vehicle is unreasonable -- the most reasonable expectation is that such issues can be handled (and hopefully within warranty but if not, then so be it).  In five decades of ownership of nearly every maker there is, I've never had even one transport that didn't develop a problem or two along the way.  That never made me run kicking and screaming away from that manufacturer, though.

 

(I've had at least three vehicles whose A/C all went in various and sundry ways, the last one costing me $2K.  Don't hear me whining about it, though, and I'm still driving that truck).

[drdiesel1]

In terms of the OP I'm not sure how anyone who talks about themselves as a "life time buyer" but immediately starts looking elsewhere when they have one problem after 40K could be considered a very valuable customer anyway (and we never found out what the issue was so I suspect it WAS just a fuse).

 

Folks need to act reasonable about their expectations.  Cars are ENORMOUSLY complicated mechanisms, with tens of thousands of parts (and several thousand moving parts).  To expect no issues over the lifetime of any vehicle is unreasonable -- the most reasonable expectation is that such issues can be handled (and hopefully within warranty but if not, then so be it).  In five decades of ownership of nearly every maker there is, I've never had even one transport that didn't develop a problem or two along the way.  That never made me run kicking and screaming away from that manufacturer, though.

 

(I've had at least three vehicles whose A/C all went in various and sundry ways, the last one costing me $2K.  Don't hear me whining about it, though, and I'm still driving that truck).

2 posts total......Equals TROLL ;)