Auto Air Conditioning in Snellville, GA for BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Audi, Porsche and Volkswagen. We find the leak before we add a drop, fix what let the charge out, and weigh in the exact fill your car calls for.
The first 95-degree week in June, the phone doesnt stop. "It's blowing warm." Or the sneaky one: "It's cold on 78 at 55, but the minute I stop at a light it goes warm." That second one is a clue. A system thats low on charge cools fine with air rushing over the condenser. Sitting still, the fan cant keep up and the cold fades.
By August its the school pickup line. Twenty minutes idling outside Brookwood or South Gwinnett with the kids in the back, and a weak A/C show itself fast. Georgia humidity makes it worse, becuase the system has to wring the water out of the air before it can cool it. A car that was fine in May is misrable now.
Warm air mean come in soon. A compressor that squeals or a clutch that clicks on and off means come in this week. Let it seize and it sends metal through the hole system. We're the German auto repair shop in Snellville that finds the leak first, and weve done air conditioning that way since 2010.
German air conditioning is built into the car, not bolted on. Dual-zone climate, blend doors behind the dash, and a charge mesured to the gram. A shop without the factory software will guess, and guessing on a A/C system is how you buy parts you never needed.
Most of our air conditioning work comes from Snellville, Loganville, Grayson, Lawrenceville, Lilburn and Stone Mountain, and most of it lands in the same six hot weeks, so book early if you cant wait. If its a Mercedes or a BMW, the Mercedes repair and BMW repair pages cover what else we watch for on your car.
Same-week appointments are usually open, even in June. Call with the year, the model and what the vents are doing, we'll tell you what we'd check first and what finding out should cost. No suprises.
I've been coming here for years, and the quality of work and customer service is always great! They also work quickly, so there's very little downtime whenever I drop off my car. I'd recommend German Performance to anyone who needs a trustworthy mechanic!
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There’s nothing but good things to say about this shop. This car needed a lot of work from oil leaks, engine mounts, airbag light, to coolant leaks, and they did this work in a day. Fast and great work. This if for sure my go to shop from now on. Highly recommend!
Nine times in ten its low charge from a leak. After that, a failled compressor or clutch, a condenser hit by road debris, or a stuck expansion valve. We find the cause first, we dont recharge and hope.
We wont. A charge on top of a leak is gone in weeks, sometimes days, and you've paid for refrigerant that went into the air. We find the leak, fix it, than recharge. Its the only way the cold lasts past July.
Most cars built before 2017 use R134a. Most 2017 and newer European cars use R1234yf, wich takes its own machine. We run both. We check the label under your hood before any work starts, so the rite one goes in.
Usually a compressor clutch going bad, a pressure sensor, or an electrical fault in the climate control. On dual-zone German cars it can also be a blend door thats sticking. The factory software shows us which, so we dont guess and swap parts.
That's the classic low-charge sign. At speed, air rams through the condensor and a half-full system can still cool. Stopped, the fan does all the work and cant keep up. Sometimes it's the condenser fan itself. We test it rather then guess.
Yes. BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Audi, Volkswagen and Porsche, plus MINI, AMG and Sprinter vans. Each one has its own climate software and its own quirks, and weve had the factory tools for all of them since 2010. Its all we do.