Re: [doc] What is the most common air con failure point?

["Chris Hawes" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have heard of one member where one the pipes blew and off went his £60 
worth of gas...  In my case the evaporator blew and the aircon guy pumped 
nitrogen in to find the hole.

As it happens, I am having my aircon gassed for the first time in a year 
tomorrow.  I have gone for R134a as RS24 is mostly R134a anyway and R12 is 
no longer manufactured so every time you want to fill it will get harder to 
find and more expensive.

Fingers crossed, as everything is new or OEM apart from the 2 hoses that run 
down the chassis to the currently dormant original compressor...

With any luck I will be travelling to the Kent modified event on Sunday in 
an ice cool cockpit

Regards

Chris Hawes
p.s. dye is in the system for life once it has been injected.  I will be 
having a UV leak test to ensure that the finer, higher pressured R134a is 
not escaping.

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From: "Chris" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 9:39 PM
Subject: Re: [doc] What is the most common air con failure point?


> hmmmm in short....no....unless your very lucky or its a big hole..it can 
> be
> hard enough with the dye
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> Chris
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> From: "John Chapelhow" <chapelhow@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Subject: Re: [doc] What is the most common air con failure point?
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>> Alas, no dye. The 'short test' worked fine, there were no audible leaks
>> (the lack of dye was obviously a major oversight) are there other ways
>> to check?
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>> :-(
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>> John
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>>> When it was re-gassed did they put any dye into the system? If so
>> they
>>> should be able to find the leak. The dye shows up under UV light and
>> you
>>> also need special goggles.
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