Renault Aircon Compressors For Sale
Before you buy one, be sure it is the compressor. A car full of gas that still blows warm has a handful of possible causes, and only one of them costs this much to put right.
Used and reconditioned units, identified from your VIN before we quote.
- Matched to your VIN
- Terms set on the quote
- Collection or courier
Checked, not just shifted
Used units get inspected before they are offered to you, and anything reconditioned has had the work done and documented.
Terms in writing
Cover varies by unit and by condition, so we set it out on the quote rather than making a blanket promise on a web page.
Collect it or have it sent
Collection is from our Briardene counter in Durban North. If you would rather it came to you, say where you are and the carriage goes on the quote before you commit to anything.
Renault aircon compressors by engine code
South African breakers index these by the engine, not the model. Match the code and the search gets short.
Compressor — 1.0 SCe
B4D / B4DA
- The same 1.0 three-cylinder family is shared with the Nissan Magnite, and South African breakers cross-list the pump against both
- One of the few Renault compressors you can still buy brand new here, for the newer Kiger and Triber — so used is not your only option
- Local sellers list this part as an "aircon pump" far more often than a "compressor", and searching only the second word misses most of the stock
Priced against your VIN, because two of these that look identical often are not.
Compressor — 0.9 TCe
H4B / H4B400
- One 0.9 TCe three-cylinder unit spans the Clio IV and the Captur, and South African sellers list it against both
- Listings quote the fuller H4B400 as well as H4BA — quote whichever is stamped on your engine, because sellers index on the code rather than the model name
- The widest asking-price spread of any compressor here, so this is the one variant where a second quote is worth the phone call
Priced against your VIN, because two of these that look identical often are not.
Compressor — 1.5 dCi
K9K
- Shared with the Nissan NP200 1.5 dCi, which is the largest single pool of this part in South Africa
- The K9K runs in many sub-variants and sellers quote the suffix letter, so match the full code off your engine rather than just "1.5 dCi"
- No priced Renault-badged used listing surfaced when we last looked, so treat a single quote on this one as unbenchmarked and get a second
Priced against your VIN, because two of these that look identical often are not.
Compressor — 1.6 16V
K4M
- The most consistently stocked older-Renault compressor in South African breaker yards — one Pretoria seller alone runs four concurrent adverts for Megane units
- Sellers advertise these in the plural, which usually means several donor cars on the floor and some room to negotiate
- Every Megane 1.6 listing we found was quote-on-request, so there is no published local price to anchor against
Priced against your VIN, because two of these that look identical often are not.
Compressor — 1.9 dCi
F9Q
- The cheapest Renault compressor in the local market when we last swept it, on a Megane II unit
- South African sellers treat the 2003 to 2009 Scenic II as a single fitment window for this pump
- The oldest fitment still actively stocked here, and supply is thinning — most adverts are one-off units rather than shelf stock
Priced against your VIN, because two of these that look identical often are not.
There is no price on the cards above, deliberately. A used unit is priced on the donor vehicle it came out of, so the honest answer only exists once we know which car yours is — which is why every button here asks for your details rather than showing you a number we made up. There is a guide to what these go for further down the page, gathered from other South African sellers.
Renault Aircon Compressor Price Guide
The variants below are the ones that come up most on South African cars, with what other local sellers are asking for each. Work out which row is yours and the enquiry gets a great deal quicker.
| Variant | What it goes in | Typical asking price |
|---|---|---|
| 1.0 SCe (B4D) | Kwid and Triber. Shared with the Nissan Magnite 1.0, which widens where a matching pump can be looked for. | R2 250 – R2 600 |
| 0.9 TCe (H4B / H4B400) | Clio IV, Captur, and the turbo Sandero and Stepway. Sellers index this one on the engine code, so quote whichever form is stamped on yours. | R2 500 – R5 000 |
| 1.5 dCi (K9K) | Duster, Sandero, Stepway, Clio and Captur diesels. Shared with the Nissan NP200, which is the biggest local pool of this pump. | — |
| 1.6 16V (K4M) | Megane, Scenic, Duster and the 1.6 Sandero and Stepway. Well stocked locally, but almost always sold on enquiry rather than at a listed price. | — |
| 1.9 dCi (F9Q) | Megane II and Scenic II, which local sellers treat as one fitment window from 2003 to 2009, plus the Trafic. | — |
Checked September 2026. Asking prices from other South African sellers for used units — a guide to the market, not a quote from us. A dash means we could not find two independent sellers advertising that variant, so we have not guessed.
Not sure which row you are? Send the VIN and let us work it out.
Aircon Compressors, explained
Two things decide whether a used compressor is a sensible buy, and neither is the part number.
The first is which refrigerant your car is charged with. The industry moved from R134a to R1234yf, and the two are not interchangeable. We are not going to publish a model-by-model table telling you which your Renault takes, because we could not find one we trust — the best European table we located lists the Clio IV and the Kadjar under both gases, which tells you the changeover happened mid-model and that no table settles an individual car. The label under your bonnet does settle it. Read that.
The second is how the old compressor died. If it seized, it has almost certainly shed metal particles into the condenser, the pipes and the drier. Fit a clean used compressor into that system and the debris comes back around and kills it too. A proper job means flushing the system, replacing the drier and usually the expansion valve as well. A shop offering to swap the compressor alone on a seized system is offering you a repair that fails twice.
Worth knowing before you condemn one at all: the compressor pulley spins on the auxiliary belt all the time, and an electromagnetic clutch is what actually engages the compressor shaft. A clutch that is not engaging looks exactly like a dead compressor from the driver's seat and is a much smaller job. The counter test is to listen for a click when the aircon is switched on. No click points at the clutch or its circuit. A click with warm air points at the charge or a leak.
How you know aircon compressors are on the way out
Recognise any of that? Tell us the model and year and we will go and check what we can get hold of for you.
The questions we ask before we price aircon compressors
- What you are really deciding
- Whether you are replacing what leaked, or what made it leak.
- Where Renault differs
- This range has one documented cooling weakness and it is worth knowing before you order anything. cars.co.za reports that the plastic thermostat housing on three-cylinder models tends to warp over time — generally past 100 000 km on the Clio IV — and leak coolant, and its Sandero guide reports the same thing. A leak at the top hose on one of these cars is often the housing rather than the hose.
- Where the car was built
- Renault does not build its South African range in one place, and that decides which supply chain a part comes down. The Triber is Indian-made, on a modified CMF-A platform, and the Kwid and Kiger come off the same Indian industrial base. The Sandero was imported from Romania, and every SA-spec second-generation Duster was built at Dacia's Mioveni plant there. The first-generation Captur sold here came from Renault's Valladolid factory in Spain. It can show up in the metal, too: the first-generation Duster switched from Indian to Romanian production partway through its life, and cars.co.za observed that the Romanian-built cars appear to have benefitted from better rust-proofing and paint quality.
- What to send us
- The engine, the mileage, and where you can actually see coolant. With that in front of us we can normally settle the right aircon compressors without a back-and-forth.
Make sure it is the compressor before you buy one
The compressor is the expensive part of a Renault aircon system, which is exactly why it is worth ten minutes of diagnosis before you order one. The pattern we hear most often is a car that has been regassed, holds its gas perfectly well, and still blows warm. That points away from a leak and towards the pump or its clutch — but "towards" is not "at". A compressor can hold pressure and still fail to pump anything.
The next thing to check is whether the clutch on the nose of the compressor actually engages when the aircon is switched on. If the pulley spins but the pump does not, the fault can be the clutch itself, a relay, a pressure switch or a low-gas cut-out — and several of those are far cheaper than a compressor. The strongest single sign that the pump itself is finished is no pressure at all on test, and even then the drive belt is worth a look first.
It is also worth separating the compressor from the condenser, because the two get confused constantly and they are not the same part or the same money. The condenser sits at the front of the car with the radiator and fails by being holed, usually by a stone or by corrosion, which lets the gas out. The compressor is belt-driven off the engine and fails by not pumping. A holed condenser leaks; a dead compressor does not circulate. Have it diagnosed before ordering either one.
When you do enquire, send the code stamped on the engine rather than the model name. South African breakers index this part by engine — B4D, H4B, K9K, K4M, F9Q — and several of those units are shared with Nissan, which widens the pool considerably. A Kwid and a Triber both run the 1.0 B4D and normally take the same pump, but a naturally aspirated car and a turbo car do not. The code settles it in one line, and the rest of the cooling system parts follow the same rule.
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Further reading on aircon compressors
Independent sources, not ours. Worth a look if you want the background before you enquire.
Aircon Compressors — the questions we field most
Ready to talk aircon compressors?
Give us the VIN, or the model and year if the VIN is out of reach. We match the unit to your Renault first, then come back with the price and the carriage in one go.