JDM UP's

Ok so Im driving down the road in the SC400, the A/C is great and very cold. All of a sudden the A/C controls turn off completely and then no A/C at all. It wont even come back on.
Then I start smelling melting plastic. So I pulled over turned the car off and popped the hood. And I see shards of plastic sprayed on my oil filter, motor bay next to the compressor and on the fire proof felt on the underside of the hood.

I look at the compressor while its running and the free spinning pulley wobbles a bit but spins fine, but the clutch pulley does not. Then I look closer at the pulley and see the plastic that I was speaking of looking like it came out of the compressor????

Does a a/c compressor have plastic in it lol?

Can someone help please?

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iTrader: (1)

sounds like the clutch on the compressor took a crap. I've seen black plastic looking material come out from behind the compressor pulley/clutch assembly. Thats that "click" you hear when you turn on your AC, the clutch engaging and turning the compressor, instead of just free wheeling.

JDM UP's

Thank you!

Would it also shut off the A/C controls?

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iTrader: (1)

Depending on how bad the damage is...

The clutch sounds almost obvious, but there could be more behind the story, I've seen entire compressors seize and crack open, leaking all the refrigerant out, which would then not allow the AC controls to function.

When the systems detects low regrigerant (in the case of it all leaking out) it will not allow to compressor to function to keep it from damaging the system.

You wont really know until you take it to a shop. Looks like you're gonna have "2-60 AC" until its resolved.

JDM UP's

Thank you for the help. We dont deal with A/C.