Climate control problem

[RedVR6]

Hi all, I have a 2006 Jetta 2L turbo
A few weeks ago on a long trip (after say 2.5 hrs of driving) the Climate control seemed to stop working. Essentially next to no air was flowing out of any vent on any mode after working fine for a couple of hours. Ambient temp around 28 deg. The fan was working - you could hear it increasing and decreasing first of all as it tried to cool the car down then later on stuffing around with it.
I pulled the pollen filter out and the fan was blowing properly... I guess there is some sort of solenoid or vaccuum operated thing to switch the airflow between the different modes which was stuck in a closed position which sits after the pollen filter.
After turning the car off for lunch then starting it again 1 hr later, it was fine.
Same thing happened after 2 hrs driving a couple of days later.

Has anyone experienced anything like this.... and more to the point, have any ideas how to fix it?

Cheers
Dan

[twiceshy069]

I've had a very similar-sounding problem. Golf GTI 2006.
Quite intermittent. But usually on the hottest days of the year.
Fan just blows outside air - no cooling. Like the compressor get tired.
As Dan says, works fine after stopping the car for a while.
Would be happy to hear of a fix (or cause!) too.

Neil

[RedVR6]

Happened again yesterday... turning climate control off for a while fixed it.... for a while.

Any ideas?

[Idle]

Compressor overheating, perhaps — I'd be getting it looked at SAP.

The compressor in many of those models is known to have problems.