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23rd May 2019, 12:15 | #11 | |
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PS. Also I never run it in the winter, as suggested elsewhere, to circulate the coolant. Many folk say this is why it fails but mine never has. Makes you wonder sometimes where his sort of info. comes from.-- It's a bit like----'They all do that Sir, it's a Rover'.-----( Yet another old wives tale. Lol. ) |
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25th May 2019, 07:02 | #12 | |
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25th May 2019, 10:43 | #13 | |
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25th May 2019, 15:51 | #14 |
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Halfords said they simply fill it up with gas, which they think contains sealant properties. Go figure! I'm not sure I want to pay £50 just to have the gas leak out straightaway! And neither should they, it's bad for the environment!
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Our condensors live/work in a hostile environment, they are quite delicate and being made of aluminium oxidisation is inevitable, they simply wear out, become inefficient and often develop minute fractures that leak to atmosphere - mine is the original that has now done 160K over 14 years, it's almost threadbare of fins over 50-60% of it's surface and has been recharged twice since I've owned it so I guess Jules will be getting a call from me sometime soon (a call that I put off making last summer...) |
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25th May 2019, 22:45 | #16 |
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Got my 25 re-gassed the other day. The guy just connected it in to a machine for around half an hour. The machine ran through a sequence of vacuum testing the system, and refilling, if found ok (with a bit of dye to give away any leaks that could develop). He said on average around 15% of gas is lost per year, or more of the system is damaged. I was told the gas we currently use is going to be illegal from 2022, as the new a/c gasses are alot less of an impact on the environment. Me, I do regularly exercise my cars a/c in the winter. Makes sense to me to exercise the seals
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Thats interesting mine has green marks on the condenser would this be a tell tail dye?
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Yes those green marks suggest it is leaking, had that on my MGZT changed the condenser, only to find that the compressor also was leaking.
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Great so hopefully your compressor is fine mine wasn't pics below. Some condensers can get really bad as in the photo also below.
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