Freon?
Le Mans Master
Joined: May 2006
Posts: 9,226
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From: Irvine Ca
4 cans or R134a per year = $20 on sale at Wal-mart
One compressor cost $800.......so I can buy a lot of cans and fill that system a ton of time before I use up $800 worth.....and since R134a is not a danger top the Ozone.
Two trains of thought.....Fix it right like Suncr always suggest...or fix it cheap.
I can't see putting a lot of money into a $4k car.....If you get to the point where your 150k mile car is becoming a really nice vehicle.....then ask Suncr how to fix the a/c the correct way.
Le Mans Master
Joined: Dec 2000
Posts: 7,839
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From: San Diego, Ca
Fixing it right is probably an $800 to $1200 proposition and that's doing it yourself. The only problem with topping it off is that the leak is taking some of the oil with it only you don't know how much. Get too low on lube or keep running it without enough juice to carry the oil and you end up spending the $800 to $1200 to fix it right - plus whatever you've been dumping in it. It's fairly easy to beat the Factory too - assuming quality parts - as that operation is a suck and dump operation with none of the OEM's stopping the line to see if it holds a vacuum or if it even blows cold air out of the vents. Current production gets a computer readout from the Pressure Sensor, but that's about it. Want to see how good that works? Check out the a/c complaints on the other Boards.
