I drove from Tucson, Arizona to Long Beach California in my 90 S5 vert great mini vacation! i made it there no problem it was a great drive. on the way home it was fine too but when i was literally a mile from my house in Tucson the car stalled, i was doing about 40 or so and all the idiot lights came on. (just like when you first turn the ignition key) and i noticed the TAC was reading 0. so with what momentum i had left i pulled over and popped the hook looked and i saw smoke coming from the A/C compressor.

at the time i didn't know what it was so i was like ****... i let it sit for about 15 mins till it stoped smoking. i stated the car up shut off everything i could (A/C, Music etc) and headed home. without a problem. but now i don't know what to do. is my car alright to drive? i don't want to mess something up worse by driving it.

 

Yo j,

Sorry I couldnt get over last night but once it started raining I was like.. *** that!

 

na its cool man i understand! i looked at the belt drive diagram and thats what it is! its the A/C compresor. anytime i turn the ac on it start msking a nasty smell like rubber/plastic burning. but when i turn it off it seems to go away.

 

your belt is probably rubbing against the outter rim of the ac pulley.

 

ill go look! right now!

 

none of the blets are rubing on anything! as soon as i turned the ac on literaly as soon as it kicked on it shut the motor down... wtf...

 

is the AC motor seized?

 

well i dont know... before i turned the AC on, when i was looking if the belts where rubing together everything seemed fine. everything was moving properly... but it might be siezed. i dont have anyone to turn the damn ac on when im looking at the motor...

 

i have the same problem. AC Compressor is seized. just dont turn the AC and u'll be fine until u replace it. it's the compressor clutch, although i dont know if u can replace just the clutch or u have to replace the whole thing.

 

Im just replacing the whole damn thing! actually im doing it today at Jarrets house!

 

good, coz i've been running my FC without AC (and it sucks not having AC here in Texas) for about 8 months now. someone's gonna give me a used AC Compressor, it's just a matter of him finding it underneath all his spare parts :P