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*Airconditioning is a big grey area!!*
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Re: *Airconditioning is a big grey area!!* -
04-28-2005
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Your friend's family member is a muppet. "Servicing" is commonly used to refer to a regas, which often needs to be done every couple of years, more often in a car where the aircon's irregularly used. Only if there is a leak. Cure leak and system remains good for however long? Possibly and commonly many years, if not the life of the car. |
If it had a "proper" leak, it wouldn't have stayed working for a year.
What happens is that the pressure slowly drops, with the efficiency
similarly dropping, until it gets to the point where it's below the cut-off
switch's pressure level and the ac won't start.
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"Huw" <hedydd[nospam]@tiscali.co.uk> wrote: Air con is not just expensive to buy it is statistically also one of the least reliable systems on any vehicle and potentially very expensive to repair. If you must have it on a car then, with luck, it will last well with minimal bother. If it does give bother then one can either repair at a cost or live without it. It's a choice that only the owner can make. Depending on the age, general condition and cost of the vehicle, I repair some and don't bother with others. Personally, I leave the aircon running all the time. That seems to be the secret behind the longevity of the system. Me also. Never gets turned off unless a woman has been driving. |
Paul Mc Cann
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Cheers for all your input, think I might just leave it, seems I will always be chasing after problems with it in the future! |
Huw
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Now my air-con has run out inside of a year. Air conditioning seems to be a grey area, where different people tell you different things! How do I know that this company I used actually filled the car up properly and it was not a half bottle of gas?! How do I know if this company comes round to so-called service it, whether that is actually needed or not!, short of buying my own gas and doing it myself? can anybody tell me anything more about it? because its sure confused the hell outta me! |
compressor seals to start leaking - especially if it hasn't been run at
least once a week during the winter to keep them lubricated.
Minor leaks like these don't seem to show up in tests.
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*I wish the buck stopped here. I could use a few.
Dave Plowman dave (AT) davenoise (DOT) co.uk London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.
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Aircon in a car relies on the seals in the compressor. If not used, they can dry out and shrink, and let the refrigerant escape. That's probably happened to yours - you may just need to use the aircon more often, you may need to have the seals replaced. |
to change? And pigs might fly. ;-)
Anyone done a DIY repair?
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*I went to school to become a wit, only got halfway through.
Dave Plowman dave (AT) davenoise (DOT) co.uk London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.
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