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From: Mike G on 30 Jul 2010 14:56 On the 3rd of this month I enquired here about using a kit on my E39. I'm not suggesting that any of the advice I received from my original was bad. If one can afford it, there's no doubt that having a competent A/C professional do the job is the better way to go. My system was working but not cooling as well as it should. My guess was that it had simply lost a little gas since it was professionally regassed about 3 years ago. Looks like I was right. Bought a kit for �30 and used it today, and am well pleased with the result. A/C appears to be as cold as it was when it was regassed properly.:-) After connecting the hose and guage to the A/C low pressure port and saw the pressure was only down about half a bar or 7psi, I thought I might have wasted my money, but carried on and opened the valve on the hose to allow gas from the can into the system. Guage went from 2 bar to 2.5 bar, but very little gas appeared to come out of the can of gas. It felt almost as heavy as it had before I'd opened the valve, so I presume it needed very little gas, in terms of weight, to top-up the system, but it was obviously enough. Getting back into the car with the A/C running at it's lowest setting, the air coming from the vents was very cold. Well pleased with result. A significant saving of �40, as the cheapest professional regas I could find locally was �70. The can of R134a gas supplied with the kit has PAG oil added in case any wonders about the affect that adding pure gas might have on the system. Mike.
From: Mrcheerful on 30 Jul 2010 16:18 Mike G wrote: > On the 3rd of this month I enquired here about using a kit on my E39. > > I'm not suggesting that any of the advice I received from my original > was bad. If one can afford it, there's no doubt that having a > competent A/C professional do the job is the better way to go. > > My system was working but not cooling as well as it should. My guess > was that it had simply lost a little gas since it was professionally > regassed about 3 years ago. > > Looks like I was right. Bought a kit for �30 and used it today, and > am well pleased with the result. A/C appears to be as cold as it was > when it was regassed properly.:-) > > After connecting the hose and guage to the A/C low pressure port and > saw the pressure was only down about half a bar or 7psi, I thought I > might have wasted my money, but carried on and opened the valve on > the hose to allow gas from the can into the system. Guage went from 2 > bar to 2.5 bar, but very little gas appeared to come out of the can > of gas. It felt almost as heavy as it had before I'd opened the > valve, so I presume it needed very little gas, in terms of weight, to > top-up the system, but it was obviously enough. Getting back into the > car with the A/C running at it's lowest setting, the air coming from > the vents was very cold. > Well pleased with result. A significant saving of �40, as the cheapest > professional regas I could find locally was �70. > > The can of R134a gas supplied with the kit has PAG oil added in case > any wonders about the affect that adding pure gas might have on the > system. Mike. toomeys are doing a proper regas for 37.99 the vectra that kwik fit could not do: they regassed it at no charge and said they could not fix it, it was brought to me and it turned out that the clutch relay had a dirty bottom: cleaned and sprayed with de-oxit and away it went!!
From: Mike G on 30 Jul 2010 17:06 "Mrcheerful" <nbkm57(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message news:msG4o.10091$ow3.5227(a)hurricane... > Mike G wrote: >> On the 3rd of this month I enquired here about using a kit on my E39. >> >> I'm not suggesting that any of the advice I received from my original >> was bad. If one can afford it, there's no doubt that having a >> competent A/C professional do the job is the better way to go. >> >> My system was working but not cooling as well as it should. My guess >> was that it had simply lost a little gas since it was professionally >> regassed about 3 years ago. >> >> Looks like I was right. Bought a kit for �30 and used it today, and >> am well pleased with the result. A/C appears to be as cold as it was >> when it was regassed properly.:-) >> >> After connecting the hose and guage to the A/C low pressure port and >> saw the pressure was only down about half a bar or 7psi, I thought I >> might have wasted my money, but carried on and opened the valve on >> the hose to allow gas from the can into the system. Guage went from 2 >> bar to 2.5 bar, but very little gas appeared to come out of the can >> of gas. It felt almost as heavy as it had before I'd opened the >> valve, so I presume it needed very little gas, in terms of weight, to >> top-up the system, but it was obviously enough. Getting back into the >> car with the A/C running at it's lowest setting, the air coming from >> the vents was very cold. >> Well pleased with result. A significant saving of �40, as the cheapest >> professional regas I could find locally was �70. >> >> The can of R134a gas supplied with the kit has PAG oil added in case >> any wonders about the affect that adding pure gas might have on the >> system. Mike. > > toomeys are doing a proper regas for 37.99 Nice price. The only problem is that they're in Essex. I live west of Horsham in West Sussex. > the vectra that kwik fit could not do: they regassed it at no charge and > said they could not fix it, it was brought to me and it turned out that > the clutch relay had a dirty bottom: cleaned and sprayed with de-oxit and > away it went!! Know any hassle free way of fixing a compressor clutch that rattles all the times it's engaged. Apart from buying a new one? No worse now than it was when I bought the car over 3 years ago, but it's why I mainly only use the climate control for cooling Can't be heard inside the car when driving, but easily heard when the engine is ticking over. Sounds a bit like a slightly noisy timing chain. Mike.
From: Mrcheerful on 30 Jul 2010 18:25 "Mike G" <miktoolman(a)miktoolman.plus.com> wrote in message news:8bgt79F9m5U1(a)mid.individual.net... > > "Mrcheerful" <nbkm57(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message > news:msG4o.10091$ow3.5227(a)hurricane... >> Mike G wrote: >>> On the 3rd of this month I enquired here about using a kit on my E39. >>> >>> I'm not suggesting that any of the advice I received from my original >>> was bad. If one can afford it, there's no doubt that having a >>> competent A/C professional do the job is the better way to go. >>> >>> My system was working but not cooling as well as it should. My guess >>> was that it had simply lost a little gas since it was professionally >>> regassed about 3 years ago. >>> >>> Looks like I was right. Bought a kit for �30 and used it today, and >>> am well pleased with the result. A/C appears to be as cold as it was >>> when it was regassed properly.:-) >>> >>> After connecting the hose and guage to the A/C low pressure port and >>> saw the pressure was only down about half a bar or 7psi, I thought I >>> might have wasted my money, but carried on and opened the valve on >>> the hose to allow gas from the can into the system. Guage went from 2 >>> bar to 2.5 bar, but very little gas appeared to come out of the can >>> of gas. It felt almost as heavy as it had before I'd opened the >>> valve, so I presume it needed very little gas, in terms of weight, to >>> top-up the system, but it was obviously enough. Getting back into the >>> car with the A/C running at it's lowest setting, the air coming from >>> the vents was very cold. >>> Well pleased with result. A significant saving of �40, as the cheapest >>> professional regas I could find locally was �70. >>> >>> The can of R134a gas supplied with the kit has PAG oil added in case >>> any wonders about the affect that adding pure gas might have on the >>> system. Mike. >> >> toomeys are doing a proper regas for 37.99 > > Nice price. The only problem is that they're in Essex. I live west of > Horsham in West Sussex. > >> the vectra that kwik fit could not do: they regassed it at no charge and >> said they could not fix it, it was brought to me and it turned out that >> the clutch relay had a dirty bottom: cleaned and sprayed with de-oxit and >> away it went!! > > Know any hassle free way of fixing a compressor clutch that rattles all > the times it's engaged. Apart from buying a new one? > No worse now than it was when I bought the car over 3 years ago, but it's > why I mainly only use the climate control for cooling > Can't be heard inside the car when driving, but easily heard when the > engine is ticking over. > Sounds a bit like a slightly noisy timing chain. > Mike. I avoid getting involved in compressor clutches, but I do know that they are shimmed to a close setting, so maybe it needs re-shimming?
From: Conor on 31 Jul 2010 07:31
On 30/07/2010 19:56, Mike G wrote: > Well pleased with result. A significant saving of �40, as the cheapest > professional regas I could find locally was �70. Wife paid �40 last week. Plenty around here for �40 inc "come to your house" ones. -- Conor www.notebooks-r-us.co.uk |