AC only blows cold out of passenger side vents?

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AC only blows cold out of passenger side vents?

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Ok i am stumped on this. my AC blows cold out of the Passenger side vents... but warm out of ther Driver vents? anyone experience this or has a fix?
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Re: AC only blows cold out of passenger side vents?

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First thing to guess is the freon charge is low. The passenger side gets the freon first and the driver side gets the warmed up gas with no cooling left.

If the driver side can adjust the temp hot to cold and back with the heater on that means the blend door is okay.
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I had a similar problem on my 2000 where it only blew cold air on the driver side and it turned out to be the passenger air actuator. My guess is that your driver air actuator is the problem. The connection plug on mine had some mild corrosion on it and I was able just clean it up to get it to work
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imidazol97 wrote:If the driver side can adjust the temp hot to cold and back with the heater on that means the blend door is okay.
Try this first. If it goes from hot to not so hot, the blend door is fine. Then you can worry about your charge level.
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Buddy of mines had the same problem with his SLE and it was low refrigerant. Will get mines charged up this weekend and see what it does.
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Post by redzmonte »

mine was low on freon as well. filled up a little bit and bolt are ice cold. but can also be air blend door.
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