Nissan Altima: 05 Nissan Altima - Leaking water

If its water then it isn't leaking from any operating system.

"jedweb" <com> wrote in message
news:talkaboutautos.com... 

I also bought a 2005 Altima a couple of weeks ago and am experiencing
the same thing. I discovered that when you turn on the fan, depress
the recirculate button and the "upper vent" mode is used the AC
compressor will come on even though the AC light does not illuminate.
Kind of like the front window defrost mode. And the AC will remain on
until the car is restarted even if you press the recirculate button
again and open the fresh air vents. This was confirmed yesterday by
one of the local Nissan dealer's service managers. Neither the service
manager nor the salesman could explain to me why this was happening.
Indeed, they were both rather surprised at this behavior.
The water under your car is AC condensate.
Additionally, if you move the mode control to the floor vents(heat) the
recirculate button is deactivated and only the fresh air mode works,
again for no apparent reason the service manager could explain.
I believe that the computer controlling the AC controls was improperly
programmed by Nissan because this only happens with the Altima. The
service manager and I confirmed that another new Altima exhibited the
same behavior.
I called Nissan North America customer service and explained the
situation. The well intentioned rep started reading the owner's manual
to me(?) Nothing in the manual mentioned this behavior.
I would like this fixed but when I asked the cust serv rep about
talking to a supervisor about it, she told me to talk to the dealer
first.
Any incite would be greatly appreciated.
Thxs

jedweb wrote: 
accumilates 
Nissan 
Altima 

Thank you for the information about the AC situation. I'll try to talk to
my dealer and see if they can do anything.

Isn't that mentioned in the manual? I don't have the manual with me but I
recall reading that if you press the recirculate button the ac will stay on
until you restart the car a couple of times.
"the mad hungarian" <com> wrote in message
news:googlegroups.com... 

I believe that applies only to the windshield defog/defrost.

rppb wrote: 
but I 
stay on 
experiencing 
depress 
illuminate. 
on 
by 
service 
happening. 
the 
works, 
improperly 
The 
the 
manual 
the 
condensation. 
05