Originally Posted by MATCOS
Slightly off topic,sorry, but I got told that they cant regas cars pre 93 as they have older style gas that is now illegal to use,is this true? also does anyone know how you tell if the air con is leaking?
the gas you are talking about is r12 and is now illegal to re gas with r12 good job ive got a bottle knocking about for pre 93 cars you can get a drop in gas which is r49 or you can have them retro fitted to use 134a which the new cars use most cars tend to loose a bit of gas when a/c not used for a while due to seals in the compressor drying out of oil rhys you ac sounds like its a bit sort of gas you can pressure test the system to see if it has any leaks common leaks are on the condenser or joints to the condenser a die can be put in the system and a ultra vilot light used to detect leak but then again what do i know iam only a airconditioning engineer
