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Has anyone else had AC Cooling suddenly shut off the whole Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) system?
Now the warmer weather has arrived I had the opportunity to use my MG ZS EV after it had been sitting in the sun with AC "on". I ran for about 1 minute then everything stopped! AC HVAC Fan everything, only the AC button remained illuminated. Classic IT fix of cycling the HVAC power by hitting the HVAC power switch twice to turn it off and on again reactivated the system and the fan at the default position 2. So I turned it up full speed again and 20 to 30 seconds later the same shut-off happened. Since I had the sky roof tilled open I left it off allowing the natural ventilation to pull air into the cabin and wondered if perhaps it had iced up like a dehumidifier will sometime do and resolved to ask the forum - but then my wife and I both smelt the slightly acrid smell of hot electrical insulation. There wasn't any smoke and we were now within a couple of minutes from home so we finished our journey.
However, this isn't the first time the AC has stopped after about a minute running. It did it the previous occasion I used it but I was just cooling the car down as I was sitting in it on my drive trying unsuccessfully to get Android Auto working and I put it down to the fact I had the car in Park. Apparently not.
Now the warmer weather has arrived I had the opportunity to use my MG ZS EV after it had been sitting in the sun with AC "on". I ran for about 1 minute then everything stopped! AC HVAC Fan everything, only the AC button remained illuminated. Classic IT fix of cycling the HVAC power by hitting the HVAC power switch twice to turn it off and on again reactivated the system and the fan at the default position 2. So I turned it up full speed again and 20 to 30 seconds later the same shut-off happened. Since I had the sky roof tilled open I left it off allowing the natural ventilation to pull air into the cabin and wondered if perhaps it had iced up like a dehumidifier will sometime do and resolved to ask the forum - but then my wife and I both smelt the slightly acrid smell of hot electrical insulation. There wasn't any smoke and we were now within a couple of minutes from home so we finished our journey.
However, this isn't the first time the AC has stopped after about a minute running. It did it the previous occasion I used it but I was just cooling the car down as I was sitting in it on my drive trying unsuccessfully to get Android Auto working and I put it down to the fact I had the car in Park. Apparently not.