HYUNDAI WITH NO AIR CONDITIONING COMPRESSOR OPERATION

THIS WAS A HYUNDAI TUCSAN WITH AN A/C COMPRESSOR THAT WAS NOT BEING COMMANDED BY THE COMPUTER TO COME ON.
AFTER A BIT OF LEARNING AND ONE BAD CALL..OOPS.. I FIGURED IT OUT. AN 18 DOLLAR PART THAT TOOK PROBABLY 7 HOURS TO REPLACE.

[@haywardsautomotive6156]

Nice job James...that's one of those jobs you hate to start but thrilled when it's done & everything works!

[@jamesdanner7850]

+Hayward's Automotive and no left over screws. . Well maybe 1 smaller Philips; )

[@stevenmales]

nightmare of job ,and winters a few weeks away, excellent job james thanks for sharing

[@pedrolriveranegron5178]

Great James!!!!!!! Nice to see you again.I hope your children and your wife are doing well! I'm glad to greet you! And know that the workshop is still active

[@NewLevelAuto]

Glad to see you back, great job and great video as always

[@kadillacdeville]

Great video James. Love your attitude and diagnostic skills.

[@MichaelMcNeilg]

I enjoy your videos, keep them coming and thanks again James.

[@toroon]

Where ya been Bro. Scanners been busy with the Jeep. Celsius has conquered the world Freezes @ "0" boils @ "100". It blows I know! All that for a 2 bit part. I'm rolling down the window!

[@kyhomegarage3430]

Great job glad to see you back👍👍

[@justinhayward5027]

Great video. You and your brother are great learned a lot from you two

[@johnmckamy6398]

welcome back , we missed you man .

[@eldoradony]

I had a similar problem on a 2006 Tucson with automatic air. After conferring with a Hyundai tech I was convinced it was the thermistor like yours. I declined the job because it was more than I wanted to get involved with. My customer, a used car dealer, took it to one of his other guys and he found low coolant in the radiator(no warning light or codes) When he filled it, the A/C started working.

[@jamesdanner7850]

+eldoradony probably an intermittent problem. And it will return. But u will never know cause car is sold.. Ha. I'll have to remember that just in case. U never know ,since the ecm is actually the final control thru the relay

[@billrimmer5596]

As usual your videos r great. No surrender no retreat. Would b tempted thrill a hole in the evap box and stuff that thing in there. Please start filming again. U and Nick can give us more knowledge. Plus the entertainment factor.

[@rwbishop]

Ugh... I *HATE* taking dashes apart... made my back sore just watching.

[@dylankinch2735]

wow quite a job for an 18 dollar part. i thoight doing my heater core on my 99 dodge ram was a pain. lol. thanks for the vid. its been a while and we really enjoy them. hopefully u and your bro get together soon for another one. i just caught up on that lift kit series you guys did on his truck. very entertaining and informative as well. have a good day.

[@jamesdanner7850]

+Dylan Kinch I did my 01 ram heater core years back and didn't do the evap. Now my air don't work .. my windows stay down. Hate working on my own stuff

[@dylankinch2735]

Im in the same boat lol. I should have did the evap when i had it apart as well. I now have no air either. Im no a mechanic just a diy type of guy that got sick of paying people to work on my stuff so now i do everything myself for the last tfour years. I learn a ton from people like yourslef on youtube. What u do for us is priceless and its much appreciated. Just pivked up a 2012 sonata with the gdi motor. Im trying to learn the sytem so if u have an opportunity to to any vids on gdi sytems that be great. There really isnt much on you tube about them yet. Your bro did one on a buick but thats about all i could find. Anyways have a good day and thanks again

[@mohammedmuthana5828]

thank you, good job. I did a similar job on 2011 hyundai sonata 2.4 L early in this year to change a leaky evaporator it took 4hrs and i removed the whole dashboard out side the car. in old cars thermal switch was (on/off) that last for a lifetime while in newer models its a variable resistor that fail after few kilometers.

[@jamesdanner7850]

+Mohammed Muthana I like doing the Hondas that come out thru the glove box hole in like 2 hrs

[@mohammedmuthana5828]

Idid not work on Honda before, in our country the most common Asian cars are Kia, Hyundai,Toyota, while Honda Mitsubishi and Subaru are rare cars. best regards

[@davesministry7789]

Good job. You stuck with it and your shop didn't put in all kind's of unnesesary parts. keep going.

[@cardoc2477]

Great video, this case wasn't easy to collect evidence for a almost 1000$ job, were no code or actual smart system that can monitor itself. thank you.

[@NCPDFSB]

jimmy's back! hope all is well.

[@michaelszweda]

like you i go from diag to repair definitely a challenge but that's what makes us money

[@samuelbane6743]

Brother....I don't work this way... but I was thinking a small square access Hole In The Box, replace the sensor and then seal up the box... I would never do that because that's the hack way... But it did cross my mind!

[@jamesdanner7850]

+Samuel Bane believe me. I thought of it too. But it was on the firewall side and there were mode motors on the sides and the heater core was closer to the passengers. I don't even know if a true hack could have drilled thru the firewall. . Ha.. and if I tried to relocate it ,say, to a spot I could drill a hole or flex something I didn't want to be responsible if the new compressor blew up It was what it was.

[@billyr9840]

James don't let Paul see this ! You know his motto, Don't Be A Parts Changer ! LOL ! Nice !

[@jamesdanner7850]

+Billy R yeah yeah....fell into the end of the day,good chance this is it, it's only 25 bucks trap. Which technically is only 15 to 20 minutes of diagnostic time ..if that makes me feel better :p

[@billyr9840]

I'm sure it does ! Nice call, nice vid ! Take Care !

[@wysetech2000]

Good job, Jim. They always look like a bomb went off when apart. I hate doing those jobs. Luckily i work with someone who likes that kind of work.

[@jamesdanner7850]

+wysetech2000 I think nick likes it too. He scheduled a BMW x5 for an evap job the week before I left for the beach. And of course I never have time to fully dedicate to a job like that, being a small shop , so they can drag out all week.

[@wysetech2000]

Poor Nick...LoL.

[@GCraigmile]

This is just the kind of job I get stuck doing!! Lol,,, good job

[@jamesdanner7850]

+GCraigmile yea. You gotta be in the mood to want to do one of these

[@davit7799]

Great vid and fix Danner. When you start looking at wiring diagram how do you make sure you have the correct one? How often do you get wrong diagrams or wire colors that don't match the actual vehicle wiring?

[@02lowrider62]

Good diagnostics what a pain of a job

[@Geekdiymechanic]

Wow. That was a great deal of work. Thanks for making the video. In the end, did the ac compressor pid still not indicate that the ac was on?

[@jamesdanner7850]

+GeekDIYMechanic honesty, by the time we were done, I was just glad everything worked. I never checked to see

[@Mikeywil0003]

I had to tear the dash out of my Durango last summer for a 0 dollar fix. The vent mode door got hung up and I wasn't getting any airflow on the floor or defrost. Usually if I'm taking a dash and HVAC box out, even if its for an 18 dollar part, I will put an evaporator and a heater core in it, just to restart the lifespan of those components, and decrease the chances that I'd have to pull the dash again.

[@jamesdanner7850]

+Mikey I'm with u. But I can only do what's agreed to

[@Mikeywil0003]

That's true. unfortunately most customers don't want to spring the extra money for the heater core and evaporator, since they would already be paying 7 hours labor. I think even from the customers perspective, it's a bad idea to not change them, because for all we know, they would have to do another 7 hours labor to do the evaporator next season. I wish they would design these cars so you can access those components. It looks like on that Hyundai, you have to pull the dash to repair any part of the HVAC box.

[@jamesdanner7850]

+Mikey I know. Nothing like a Honda evaporator that's 2 hrs . Comes thru the glove box opening

[@michaelszweda]

great video just did the same job three days ago evap and heater core replacement and compressure was not fun 14 hours pay took all of that to complete

[@jamesdanner7850]

+Michael Szweda I bet. .. mine was 7 or 8 because nick helped the whole time. We r hourly so get paid the same no matter. Definitely wouldn't want to do that every day

[@Nabeelco]

Fuck, what a nightmare. Jesus.

[@stigonutube]

Wowsers, Big F-ing Job

[@smms1276]

SWEEET VID 🚹, 👍 👍

[@toyotatechMDT]

Where you been Danner?! I hope you've not selfishly been on vacation? Great video, I had to laugh, I had a whole dash out of a Yaris today to replace the evaporator, hate dash work! Any cut hands and broken clips?!!!

[@Mikeywil0003]

Gotta hate dash work, especially on newer cars, they use stupid clips instead of screws.

[@jamesdanner7850]

+Toyota Tech nothing broke but I had a screw I couldn't figure out where it went

[@jamesdanner7850]

+Pomona Bill (PomonaBill220) nice

[@glenharper3136]

WOW!

[@anyway_anyway]

awsome

[@CheezyDee]

Looks like every company builds cars the same way these days; start with the heater box and build the car around it.

[@jamesdanner7850]

+Cheezy Dee ha! Does seem that way

[@johnwrench4speed]

Nice video. I was wondering if you offered the customer the opportunity to change out the evaporator while you were there since the labor cost would be the biggest part of the job (and notate on the repair order so if the evaporator goes out sometime later they don't comeback and wtf)?

[@jamesdanner7850]

+johnwrench4speed I think they talked about it in the office, but they didn't get me one . Guessing with the compressor and stuff done at the other shop , then shipped to me, he wasn't gonna bite on any more upsales

[@elijahcabanag5886]

Hi sir. I have my hyundai tucson 2016 ac compressor not engaging..i disconnect the connector wire of compressor icheck its give 3.2 volts. What exactly volts do have to suply the solenoid valve to engage the compressor?

[@haroldb8642]

Honda's used that design.

[@garysmith9772]

I believe Hyundai has a retro-fit kit that you just drill a 3/4" hole thru the plastic housing and shove the sensor into the evap coil and connect the harness. takes about ten minutes. Dealers don't share this with the outside world. LOL>

[@jamesdanner7850]

+gary smith that's enough to make me a little mad... Ha

[@garysmith9772]

James you should come up with your own kit and market it yourself just got to figure out a way to get access to that Coil without Pulling the dash apart

[@IntradeMotors]

you would think they would make temp senders more easy to replace . they probably hope you buy a new car instead when it's so difficult to replace ps my 95 corollas ac still works nothing ever failed .

[@jamesdanner7850]

+Intrade Motor not sure engineers always think about our end of this stuff

[@rhkips]

What on earth are those icons supposed to be on the buttons on the radio module above the climate controls? I think someone at Hyundai was drunk... LOL F = C*1.8+32; for quick calculations, double your Celcius number and add 30. :)

[@jamesdanner7850]

+rhkips nice. I think the buttons were worn out

[@Turbotomass]

Is there not a a/c pressure and evap temp data pid? ether oem or global?

[@jamesdanner7850]

+Turbotomass not with this manual system. All there was linking to ecm was the a/c switch input and the 12 v signal thru the pressure switch. So if those 2 wires showed 12 volts, the computer grounded the a/c relay

[@90_rooster14]

what kind of test light is that James?

[@jamesdanner7850]

+90_ Rooster ancient. ..ha. it was made by waekon but I don't know if they make them anymore

[@billrimmer5596]

Is Clark really grumpy, or does he fake it?

[@jamesdanner7850]

+Bill Rimmer he's actually nicer when he knows I'm filming

[@johnbullshitt8045]

Kia tech here... Very common issue those thermistors are junk

[@jamesdanner7850]

+John Bullshitt is there any way to cheat that job ...correctly? Ha

[@johnbullshitt8045]

James Danner never have had to do one on a Hyundai Tucson.. Knock on wood right aha but on Kia vehicles you can pull the vent hose on the airbox and change it in literally 2 minutes

[@easttnrickmc]

James Danner not a great "cheat" but you can pry the box apart from psngr side and slide hand in and install thermistor by feel it may not be in center but it'll work leave old one in there snip the wire not great but saves hours and hours

[@johnmckamy6398]

that's one of those where the customer is like but the parts only 18.00 dollars why is the bill so high ? ha ha

[@cojones8518]

Step one remove car from part. Reassembly is reverse of disassembly.

[@mn4a15]

is that a solus ultra or modis?

[@jamesdanner7850]

+mn4a15 just an ultra

[@jamesdanner7850]

+mn4a15 just an ultra

[@mn4a15]

couldnt really tell in the video. curiosity got the best of me. had to ask how do u like it? your brother gets all the fun toys huh? 😀

[@jamesdanner7850]

+mn4a15 it works great. U can get one reasonably priced without falling into the debt trap of the biggest or best. And get the job done anyway. And have money for your pocket instead of the snap-on guy

[@mn4a15]

sounds great I might get one

[@philh9238]

junk!