Anyone else’s A/C absolute garbage at anything under 25mph?

[izzy]

I understand mistakes happen but I've seen this here, TW, and on reddit.

I want to be positive for anyone here's sake but with aluminum blocks and heads you usually get 1 good overheat and then its kinda cooked.

Seems like plugging stuff back in that you unplugged is a routine part of servicing a vehicle usually... lol

This is an L mistake on the techs end. Maybe we need a sticky for people that get this done to pop the hood after and look for this plug:

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[SpicyTaco]

Exact scenario as listed above: https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/bsm-tsb-make-sure-dealer-re-connects-all-plugs.862541/

@john877the plug is pictured in that link.

My A/C started acting up after the update, but I didn't put the two things together until your posts. Sure as can be, I too had a plug hanging around, disconnected. Although I am not technical enough to name the connector, I could tell that it lead to the cooling fan. It was however a different connector than mthorpton's pics which I find puzzling. After taking pics (see attached) to show the dealer who did it I plugged it in and viola', A/C worked like a charm.

<a href="https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...r-re-connects-all-plugs.862541/#post-30865908">BSM TSB - make sure dealer re-connects all plugs</a>

 

[bsquaredMTB]

My A/C started acting up after the update, but I didn't put the two things together until your posts. Sure as can be, I too had a plug hanging around, disconnected. Although I am not technical enough to name the connector, I could tell that it lead to the cooling fan. It was however a different connector than mthorpton's pics which I find puzzling. After taking pics (see attached) to show the dealer who did it I plugged it in and viola', A/C worked like a charm.

<a href="https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...r-re-connects-all-plugs.862541/#post-30865908">BSM TSB - make sure dealer re-connects all plugs</a>

I raised hell with the dealer, but I'm sure it doesn't make a whole lot of difference. It's really frustrating that this is happening so much.

 

[Wighty]

Anyone else notice their A/C doesn’t blow cold at slower speeds? Mine is great at higher speeds, luckily most of my driving with the taco is highway. In town though, or sitting at a stop, it’s not cold at all.

I took it in a parade today (going about 2mph) and by the end of it my dash was telling me to safely pull off and refer to the manual. The A/C was cranked up the entire parade but nothing cold coming out, so I’m sure the compressor was overworking and likely the source of the issue, but this shouldn’t be happening either way. I will definitely be taking it in, but wondered if anyone else was having the problem with slower speeds not producing cold air.

My buddy had the same issue on his Landcruiser. After visiting the dealer, he discovered it wasn't blowing as cold because he had his vehicle in "Eco" mode. He switched to "normal" mode and solved the issue.

 

[trailhunger]

My buddy had the same issue on his Landcruiser. After visiting the dealer, he discovered it wasn't blowing as cold because he had his vehicle in "Eco" mode. He switched to "normal" mode and solved the issue.

yup lol...when everyone says ECO Mode does nothing, well it does more than throttle mapping; crushes that cool breeze to improve your fuel economy

 

[Tacoma]

@Tacoma did you get your truck looked at? Curious if you got your issue resolved.

I did, I waited until the 20k service and just had them check it out at that point since most of my driving is highway so really wasn’t too inconvenient. I don’t know the exact details, but something along the lines of they tried to read the A/C pressures and everything was way off. So they drained it and then couldn’t get the volume of fluid back in, so completely re-drained what they got into it and refilled and checked everything again and it was good. So apparently there was some sort of valve issue? Idk, it’s been better since. Maybe the plug issue since it seemed to work at high speed which would naturally push air through the fans to then push ac fluid through the system? I don’t recall when I noticed the issue compared to the BSM update though. I don’t think it was though as I personally know the service manager and I’m pretty sure he’d shoot it straight to me if they screwed up

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