Originally posted by chimchim
How A/C works quickie:
- belt attached to engine turns a compressor motor
- compressor motor compresses fresh/recirc ait
- compressed air runs through radiator to be cooled off (freon somewhere at this point)
- compressed air expands by itself back to atomospheric pressure and is blown into cabin
Cool air!
Uhhh, you can't compress air in an a/c system. Also it doesn't go to the radiator, it goes to the condenser which is in front of the radiator. This is where the gas is condensed into liquid form and the heat is given off.
I don't really want to explain more but you're wrong.