greggors84
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| posted on 15/7/09 at 05:22 PM |
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Replacing high pressure AC pipe
Went to recharge my air con at the weekend using one of those cans from Halfords and when I put some in it just came out of a pin hole on the high
pressure side.
The fittings look fairly simple, just a flange bolted on and they are easy to get to.
Anyone done one before? Anything else I need to take into consideration?
Car is a Skoda Fabia.
Chris
The Magnificent 7!
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prawnabie
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| posted on 15/7/09 at 05:29 PM |
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Yet more air con gas released into the atmoshpere!
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BenB
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| posted on 15/7/09 at 06:25 PM |
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Did you know it's illegal to allow an air con problem to vent the gas into the atmosphere?!?!?
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zzr1100rick2
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| posted on 15/7/09 at 06:44 PM |
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depends what gas it is
system needs vac ing out and idealy the reciever drier needs changing as it will be saturated pipe needs new o rings
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Mark Allanson
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| posted on 15/7/09 at 06:54 PM |
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This is a Fabia problem - happens to all of them at some point. You need new O rings which are special purple ones and a special tool for attaching to
the pipe in the RHF inner wing.
If you can keep you head, whilst all others around you are losing theirs, you are not fully aware of the situation
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rusty nuts
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| posted on 15/7/09 at 07:45 PM |
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You may not be able to get any more of the Halfords gas as the law changed a couple of weeks ago and only qualified personal are supposed to service
AC systems. The Halfords gas also contaminates the system apparently and may cause future servicing problems. Trading standards will be checking up on
garages offering AC servicing and hefty fines will be imposed.
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