I put a new compressor, condenser, (had to replace the rear wire harness that I was only able to order on eBay because the compressor hit the side of the brittle plastic at just the right spot and it blew up lol) dryer sock/filter. The expansion valve I didn't replace. That is normally on the firewall, right on the other side of the evap. I could not find it and wasn't sure if it was in the dash (which would be odd as no car does that) but the engine is right up against the firewall and no room to see even. I was not about to drop the engine cradle for it. The old system I thought it blew up, but turns out, it only disintegrated the clutch. Which here in Arizona, it's 99.999999% of failures is a full AC blowup. So there was no debris in the lines so wasn't too worried about replacement of it.

Anyways, my fender says AC is .600kg. Or 600 grams. I've read the forum here where others stated 2016 is 1.2oz or 1.8oz... why is there so many different people saying different capacity?

Do they put a capacity sticker on depending where the vehicle is going in the US/world? Mine was an Arizona ordered/bought/sold/bought by me. So 100% Phoenix car.

My brother who is a mechanic professionally, has an AC machine that fills the system up perfect in about 30 seconds. But unable to do that for reasons with him. So I'm doing it the old school gauges and weighing out my cans as I fill it up. So weigh can. Fill, weigh empty. The delta is what I put in. So do that until I am full.

But just wondering about capacity. Or is the .600kg sticker for something else? It just says r134a with a snowflake icon and .600kg. Usually ac stickers have a lot more info on it, but this is just an icon and a number. That's it. So wondering if that's the right one? Or if that's the oil capacity. Which doesn't make since cuz oil capacity is 8oz. If anyone knows the true GM setting for refrigerant levels, plz let me know!!!

 

On my 08 it is on a placard on the passenger side…it takes .60 KILOGRAMS….or 1.2 POUNDS...21.164 ounces !!

 

Thank you for the chart! Here is the sticker on my passenger fender next to the high port. The low port is between the hot valve cover, exhaust manifold, coolant tank. Making it near impossible to do anything with. Horrible design!!!

 

Correct. For a 2016 6.2L it is 19.2oz.

 

Got it all charged up and she's blowing cold again! But as I was changing out the compressor, the tentioner had hydronic fluid everywhere, so it's done for. I wonder why they didn't use just a spring tentioner like everyone else, but used a hydronic and spring one. Thankfully the spring is plenty strong still. The belt is donzo too. I need to order those both as no vAutoZone in Phoenix has a belt or tentioner for the C7