Car died when compressor kicked on.

[Clselby]

Was sitting at a light the other day, and had the defrost on. When the compressor kicked on it died. Was able to start it right back up and it has not done it since. Car has 60,000 miles. Could it have just been a one off kind of thing considering it was a cold engine and was very cold outside?

 

[Mr.turner85]

Generally I would say this would be the sign of a locked up compressor but considering you said it only happened once and has been fine since I doubt it. It is possible there is some other issue but if it hasn't been an issue again don't worry about it until it happens more frequently and you can recreate the scenario and pick it apart ie was the idle high or low, were there a lot of other accessories running, was it running rough. So for now don't sweat it unless it happens more often



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