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 Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2012 11:18 am |
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Joined: Aug 24, 2012
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Location: Loughborough
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Is this the airr conditioning unit (to the offside of the radiator)? If not, then where is it?
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Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2012 11:38 am |
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Location: Kent
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That looks like a condenser there should also be a compressor (pump running from the Aux belt) and also a heat exchange unit and a large amount of gubbins inside the cabin behind the dash. What's the problem with it?
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Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2012 11:47 am |
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Location: Loughborough
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I turn the AC button on and nothing happens even after driving for a while. I heard those refilling kits can solve the problem, but I need to find the nipple where I can fill the gas first...
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Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2012 11:55 am |
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Don't bother refilling yourself, get it refilled and checked out at a garage, if you don't get the correct amount of PAG oil into it you will kill the compressor. Plus they will pressure test it as well you may have a leak in it. Have you done the basic checks? fuses, checked to see if the compressor come's on (dip in the idle revs when AC is activated)
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Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2012 11:56 am |
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Joined: Feb 08, 2010
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oh dear.....
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Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2012 11:58 am |
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| Seabook wrote: |
| oh dear..... |
Hmm... I have to agree TBH 'where is the nipple for refilling' (Hint: you have taken a picture of it...)
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Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2012 12:02 pm |
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| Dillon wrote: |
| Seabook wrote: |
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Hmm... I have to agree TBH 'where is the nipple for refilling' (Hint: you have taken a picture of it...) |
unless you got the complete kit already, otherwise you need quite a few bits and pieces to re-gas the system. you can't use bolt the compress R134a can to the system.....
and considering paying only as little as 30 quid could re-gas the system from a garage; i wouldn't bother to buy the kit.
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Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2012 12:13 pm |
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Joined: Feb 07, 2010
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Location: Athens, Greece
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Servicing and filling A/C is an art.
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| 1.4i, 2001, 3-door, China Blue
Repair safely - Drive safely | |
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Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2012 12:15 pm |
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| V9977 wrote: |
| Servicing and filling A/C is an art. |
that's science 
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Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2012 3:13 pm |
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Joined: Feb 07, 2010
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Location: Athens, Greece
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| Seabook wrote: |
| V9977 wrote: |
| Servicing and filling A/C is an art. |
that's science |
Science is an art too.. and so is engineering. 
(imho of course)
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| 1.4i, 2001, 3-door, China Blue
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