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Chat => Sports, Hobbies & Motors => Topic started by: matt5cott on April 29, 2014, 22:30:52 PM

Title: Aircon
Post by: matt5cott on April 29, 2014, 22:30:52 PM

Need a bastard re-gas and I bet it's top £££ because we're coming up to summer, anyone know of any dealzzzz?

Title: Re: Aircon
Post by: knighty on April 30, 2014, 00:05:28 AM

I'd do it for free for you... but guess it's probably more in petrol then you'd have to pay to have it done normally

just did my sisters, her's was £60 last time

Title: Re: Aircon
Post by: matt5cott on April 30, 2014, 00:11:47 AM

Quote from: knighty on April 30, 2014, 00:05:28 AM

I'd do it for free for you... but guess it's probably more in petrol then you'd have to pay to have it done normally

just did my sisters, her's was £60 last time

Ooooh I did not know you can get kits!

http://www.mybluemr2.co.uk/Rev3/Aircon/index.htm

looks easy enough!

That said for the price probs not worth it  :-X


http://www.f1autocentres.co.uk/air-conditioning.php fotty quid

Title: Re: Aircon
Post by: Clock'd 0Ne on April 30, 2014, 00:23:56 AM

When I had my first MX-5, because it was an '89 it needed some sort of special gas that was no longer available to be regassed (banned for CFCs or something :dunno: ).

I would have had to drive to some specialist in North Yorkshire to have it done... never did in the end, and haven't had a car with aircon since! I gather if you are paying to have it regassed somewhere decent they will probably clean out the filters, etc too?

Title: Re: Aircon
Post by: matt5cott on April 30, 2014, 09:07:56 AM

f1auto empty then fill it for fotty quid, a clean is £15 extra, no doubt they'll insist on it tbh :-\

Title: Re: Aircon
Post by: knighty on April 30, 2014, 17:25:45 PM

my dad tried one of those kits before I bought the proper refrigeration gear...  the kit was pretty crap, didn't have enough gas in it :-(


they'll suck the system empty because it's the easiest way to check for leaks (if any moisture gets into the system it'll block it)

a clean/flush will just be them blowing through the system with dry nitrogen.... don't bother with that, it won't do anything anyway

if there's any crud/junk/etc.. in there that could be blown out, you might as well give up.... you'll never get it all out, and it only takes a tiny bit of crap to block the expansion valve and stop it working at all


if anyone local needs there's doing (or if you're passing this way) just give me a shout, I've got all the gear, plus a nice selection of gasses... including the ones you can;t buy any more :-)