Maybe a sensor could have been damaged? I have noticed that my temperature raises to operating temp really quickly after a cold start (about 3 minutes), since I had the maintenence done that is.

 

Maybe I should mention I made a mistake of unscrewing a large bolt that connected pipeing to the condensor and cold mist started spewing out, but I tightened it back up immediatly.

 

UMMMMM.......yeah you should have mentioned that before. You let air into the system, so thats why your a/c compressor is turning on and off all the time but its not getting cold.

You need to take it to a A/C shop, evacuate the refrigerant, put it under a vaccum for 45 minutes and re-charge the system. Just like brakes, the system won't work with air in it.

 

[:@] god d@mnit!!!

 

Any guestimation on the what this will cost me?

 

2 hours of labor and the cost of refrigerant. I would say about $250

 

ow

 

just took my car car to my local Benz tech and was told it is nearly impossible for a car to have air in the system. He told me if that were the case every car that had a refridgerant leak would have this problem.

 

OK So why didn't you get the Benz guy to diagnose the problem?

If he is so sure about the air he should have offered to re-charge the system cause you definately lost some refrigerant when you got the mist!

 

Its not impossible to get air in the system but its hard to do, it doesn't matter,im just saying you need to re-charge the system to fix it anyways.

Its pretty easy to tell whats wrong with the system just by hooking up a set of manifold gauges to it.