The aircon has packed up again
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This car is a nightmare 
Had the aircon regassed at Waldonway last October.
£85+ VAT.
I use it whenever I take the car out (which is about every 3 weeks) for about 5 mins.
Wondered why no cold air was coming out, and the compressors not spinning again!!
I am really getting pI55ed off with this endlees drain on my bank account, and the fact I have to travel miles to the nearest dealer.
Can someone give me a good reason to keep the bloody thing
>>> Edited by anonymous-user on Sunday 22 June 15:28
Had the aircon regassed at Waldonway last October.
£85+ VAT.
I use it whenever I take the car out (which is about every 3 weeks) for about 5 mins.
Wondered why no cold air was coming out, and the compressors not spinning again!!
I am really getting pI55ed off with this endlees drain on my bank account, and the fact I have to travel miles to the nearest dealer.
Can someone give me a good reason to keep the bloody thing
>>> Edited by anonymous-user on Sunday 22 June 15:28
Your dealer should be able to do something about this but unfortunately it isn't easy or cheap in the main.
Slow A/C refridgerant leaks are a git - plain and simple - I had the same problem on my old MX-6 and what they did was - as it would hold pressure for a while before losing gas - they regassed it as normal and then introduced a UV dye in there too. The instruction was to come back again when the compressor would no longer kick in.
4 months later I went back ... the guy wandered around the engine bay with a UV lamp looking for where the stuff had exited. Costs were calculated and I decided that it just wasn't worth repairing - can't remember exactly what was on the list of bits but it wasn't much however the labour was just prohibitive (came to over £800 in total) for what was essentially a valueless vehicle that was just being destroyed by my doing 36,000 miles a year to and from work so I just left it with non-functioning A/C.
It's sitting outside in the drive at the moment with a collapsed hydraulic lifter that needs replacing but almost 200,000 miles on the clock!
Phil
Slow A/C refridgerant leaks are a git - plain and simple - I had the same problem on my old MX-6 and what they did was - as it would hold pressure for a while before losing gas - they regassed it as normal and then introduced a UV dye in there too. The instruction was to come back again when the compressor would no longer kick in.
4 months later I went back ... the guy wandered around the engine bay with a UV lamp looking for where the stuff had exited. Costs were calculated and I decided that it just wasn't worth repairing - can't remember exactly what was on the list of bits but it wasn't much however the labour was just prohibitive (came to over £800 in total) for what was essentially a valueless vehicle that was just being destroyed by my doing 36,000 miles a year to and from work so I just left it with non-functioning A/C.
It's sitting outside in the drive at the moment with a collapsed hydraulic lifter that needs replacing but almost 200,000 miles on the clock!
Phil
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