After the recent HG job on my 98 Forester I drove it for a few days with the ac not charged and the compressor wire unplugged. I got a CEL after I drove it a few times. A couple of days ago I had the ac charged and after a half dozen or so start/warmup cycles the CEL went out. Will the unplugged ac cause the CEL or is it probably something else that will show up again?

After the recent HG job on my 98 Forester I drove it for a few days with the ac not charged and the compressor wire unplugged. I got a CEL after I drove it a few times. A couple of days ago I had the ac charged and after a half dozen or so start/warmup cycles the CEL went out. Will the unplugged ac cause the CEL or is it probably something else that will show up again?

 

It really should not, as it is a completly independent system completly at the drivers control. If the CEL went out after the system got charged then i would research it a bit. I would try to pull the codes.

 

nipper