NickMendoza,

You have concluded that the design is the problem. Does that mean that you have checked your vacuum pods, your sampler blower and your aux fan and have found all of these subsystems functioning properly?

You have been given some very good advice in this thread. I would have expected that one of these suggestions would have uncovered a malfunction that is leading to your problem.

These cars do indeed have a marginal a/c system, but if everything is working properly it will not perform as badly as you describe.

LEADFOOT,

A bad fuse on the auxilliary fan is what I believe that psfred was referring to. The aux fan adds air flow across the condensor at idle, thus when it is not working, the decreased air flow will decrease cooling effect in the cabin.

Checking fuses is not the ONLY simple test you can do. Testing the vac pods is very simple, just pull the glovebox and apply about 3.5 in HG of vacuum to each of the seven lines on the manifold at the lower left of the glove box opening. Using a 1 cm piece of paper on the sample grill is very simple and checking all your fuses is very simple.

Good luck to all,