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I have a 2005 Roadster fitted with air conditioning. I would like to remove it! Does anyone have any experience with removing the compressor and substituting an idler and a smaller belt. Or do you just leave the compressor on and disconnect the pipes?
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Pass but I think there are personal and environmental hazards in doing so. I'd suggest not a job for a home mechanic.
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Any specific reason why you don't want it?
I have a 2009 Roadster and would like A/C!
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Wow! I guess the global cooling has reached California and they don't get sunshine anymore.
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Wow! I guess the global cooling has reached California and they don't get sunshine anymore. please don't say that I have just accepted an invitation to spend Christmas there 
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Drive with the hood down  I have a 2009 Roadster and would like A/C! [/quote]
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Drive with the hood down I have a 2009 Roadster and would like A/C! So do I: I want cool legs.... Roadster footwells do a passable imitation, in summer, of a pie warming oven. 
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Peter you will have to flash the pins and get some shorts on let the draught blow up your legs and cool the crown jewels area mate .  . Its hot and sticky up here going through tins of shandy out of the fridge like they are free.  Drive with the hood down I have a 2009 Roadster and would like A/C! So do I: I want cool legs.... Roadster footwells do a passable imitation, in summer, of a pie warming oven.
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I would imagine the A/C is driven off a completely separate belt and pulley to the rest of the ancillaries.
If it is the belt tensioner compressor pipework and evaporator can be completely removed.
It'd needs to be professionally recovered of the refrigerant first though as highly illegal to vent to atmosphere.
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I would imagine the A/C is driven off a completely separate belt and pulley to the rest of the ancillaries.
If it is the belt tensioner compressor pipework and evaporator can be completely removed.
It'd needs to be professionally recovered of the refrigerant first though as highly illegal to vent to atmosphere. The AC Compressor is driven by the front belt, the condensor sits infront of the standard rad, making its capacity a bit marginal. The heat exchanger sits inside the standard heater box so it takes in hot air from under the bonet. I suspect it needs a bit of fettling... You are right about the CFC issue, but the rules in the USA are much less strict. they don't obsess about ozone depletors the way the EU does. BTW did you know CFC fire extinguishers for aircraft are still legal in the EU? But you can't use them on the ground, only in the air. Go figure!
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