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B_SKY33 Enthusiast

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Well it happened, the ac went out on the truck today. The wife and I were getting ready to leave the house so she remote started the truck and a few minutes later we go outside to find that the truck is no longer running. Strange, but okay. We get in the truck and start it with no issue or warning, but after a minute I notice the ac is blowing warm air. It was 102 out side at the time this morning so I didn't bother to trouble shoot it and we were late to meet some people so I'm not really sure what's wrong yet. Since the wife is pregnant and it's hot with no ac we took her car and the truck just sits now. Oh yeah, did I mention this is a 2017 that's 1.5 months old for me and just hit 2000 miles?

 

Not sure what it can be but this new has me thinking it's something minor. I know there's a tsb for the ac hose and a bracket on previous years so maybe it's something easy like that. Fingers crossed this isn't a sign of things to come

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Are you sure you didn't go out ten minutes later. It only runs for 10 minutes on remote start. That's normal and it will only remote start twice per ignition cycle.

 

The a/c, unfortunately we live in a world of outsourced parts and everyone competing for contracts to produce them. Therefore, the workmanship of these parts is substandard. Parts fail, things break. Imagine what it'll be in 10 years. Just take it in and update the thread to share the fix.

 

 

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Positive it wasn't 10 minutes, more like 2-3 min at best.

It's going in tomorrow morning so I'll update then. I'm hoping it's a simple fix like the bracket TSB on the 14 or 15 model.

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In texas i would imagine.. :) the other morning they were showing that "feels like" temp in the morning was like 98 or something crazy like that..

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Well it happened, the ac went out on the truck today. The wife and I were getting ready to leave the house so she remote started the truck and a few minutes later we go outside to find that the truck is no longer running. Strange, but okay. We get in the truck and start it with no issue or warning, but after a minute I notice the ac is blowing warm air. It was 102 out side at the time this morning so I didn't bother to trouble shoot it and we were late to meet some people so I'm not really sure what's wrong yet. Since the wife is pregnant and it's hot with no ac we took her car and the truck just sits now. Oh yeah, did I mention this is a 2017 that's 1.5 months old for me and just hit 2000 miles?

 

Not sure what it can be but this new has me thinking it's something minor. I know there's a tsb for the ac hose and a bracket on previous years so maybe it's something easy like that. Fingers crossed this isn't a sign of things to come

 

 

1.5 months old I wouldn't even be thinking twice about taking it to the dealership to figure it out under warranty.

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Hearing so much about this happening, I guess I've dodged the bullet so far. I would have it to the dealer fast!!! Gotta have my AC

 

 

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Spurshot Senior Enthusiast

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Are you sure you didn't go out ten minutes later. It only runs for 10 minutes on remote start. That's normal and it will only remote start twice per ignition cycle.

 

The a/c, unfortunately we live in a world of outsourced parts and everyone competing for contracts to produce them. Therefore, the workmanship of these parts is substandard. Parts fail, things break. Imagine what it'll be in 10 years. Just take it in and update the thread to share the fix.

 

 

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I've been around the manufacturing biz all my 43 years of working. Outsourcing seems to have peaked. I think we're starting to go the other way. A lot of these system components are even designed by the suppliers. In this case, the condenser has a design weakness. The braze joint is designed much too small for the function of holding the dryer/desiccant tube. The braze joint fatigues and cracks.

 

 

Positive it wasn't 10 minutes, more like 2-3 min at best.

It's going in tomorrow morning so I'll update then. I'm hoping it's a simple fix like the bracket TSB on the 14 or 15 model.

 

The bracket retrofit is to keep the hard lines from cracking, which come and go at the compressor. It simply ties two hard lines together, which braces them and reduces vibration, and therefore the likelihood of cracking. If a hard line does crack, freon leaks out. The repair is: the hose/hard line has to be replaced and the system recharged. Any updates?

B_SKY33 Enthusiast

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Where do you live where it is 102 degrees in the morning!?!?!?!?!

Las Vegas, it was about 11AM

 

 

 

1.5 months old I wouldn't even be thinking twice about taking it to the dealership to figure it out under warranty.

Unfortunately I haven't taking it in yet because the Monday I was planing to go it started working again that morning and hasn't had an issue since. I told my dad about it this weekend and he said they had the exact same thing happen to his 2017 Tahoe that's about 6 months old now. Being that I use to write service for Chevrolet, I know that If i take it in while its working correctly I'm going to get the "everything is working as designed, bring it back when it does it again".

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