Member Since: 22 Dec 2009
Location: Maidstone
Posts: 7274
I think front/rear a/c set up holds 50 percent more gas than front only set up.
1st Jun 2020 7:31 pm
nigethecat
Member Since: 11 Sep 2016
Location: Marnoch
Posts: 4145
Got mine done for £45 last week at a local tyre fitting place (they had a special on FB).... apparently it only had 5 grams in it when it should have had 500
That might explain why it hadn't been getting very cold I want to see the sweets before I get into your windowless van... I'm not stupid!
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1st Jun 2020 7:52 pm
geoffsnook
Member Since: 13 Jun 2014
Location: south wales
Posts: 3169
J@mes wrote:
Consider me amazed!
Mine too all though it was not a collect it was a full vac and test then regassed was amazed at £40 but stayed there and waited for it to be completed wold not let them loose though on fault finding i had just changed my air con rad as it was rotten Discovery 3 se gone
Range rover sport supercharged here:)
1st Jun 2020 7:58 pm
JMack
Member Since: 02 Aug 2014
Location: Edinburgh
Posts: 1517
Aerialmark wrote:
Just taken mine into my local indi today for the air-con and I'm hoping its just needs gas
Fingers crossed
If it "needs" gas, the leak needs investigated and repaired first.
1st Jun 2020 8:26 pm
JMack
Member Since: 02 Aug 2014
Location: Edinburgh
Posts: 1517
geoffsnook wrote:
J@mes wrote:
Consider me amazed!
Mine too all though it was not a collect it was a full vac and test then regassed was amazed at £40 but stayed there and waited for it to be completed wold not let them loose though on fault finding i had just changed my air con rad as it was rotten
Did they pressure test it or just vac test it?
Proper pressure testing to check for leaks with OFN would take more than 35 minutes unless it's a big leak.
1st Jun 2020 8:28 pm
geoffsnook
Member Since: 13 Jun 2014
Location: south wales
Posts: 3169
Was there for about an hour and 20 all in all Discovery 3 se gone
Range rover sport supercharged here:)
1st Jun 2020 8:33 pm
LIAMMCL
Member Since: 27 Aug 2013
Location: Northumberland
Posts: 404
Mate of mine's family runs a bus and coach business. Cost me very little for him to do it properly and it has never been so cold in the 7 years I've owned the car
Had a couple of vehicles checked/refilled by him and the service is excellent.Discovery 4 HSE - Aintree Green
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I may be going mad, but you still only have one Aircon system with one condenser etc.....this is the case whether you have front or front and rear Aircon.
It's all loaded in the engine, so double is wrong, as Seddie said, enter the your details in the website and or call them?
The ones with front air con need something like 500 grams the ones with rear need 850 ish or something like that so not double but enough to cost moreRange Rover Westminster 4.4 TDV8 what a car
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Just taken mine into my local indi today for the air-con and I'm hoping its just needs gas
Fingers crossed
If it "needs" gas, the leak needs investigated and repaired first.
I know fella thats why I said hope it just needs gas as it hasn't been done for 4 years and may just need topping up but knowing my luck it could well be a leak or something a lot more expensive The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything;
They just make the best of everything they have.
2nd Jun 2020 3:25 pm
Pete K
Member Since: 15 Jan 2016
Location: GL
Posts: 10363
the rear AC pipes like to leak on the HSE
2nd Jun 2020 4:24 pm
braduk
Member Since: 27 Sep 2013
Location: Yorkshire
Posts: 353
Great so failed due to leak, so whats that gonna cost me? He did say a previous car modeo cost £600 for new radiator to get it working.
2nd Jun 2020 5:23 pm
JMack
Member Since: 02 Aug 2014
Location: Edinburgh
Posts: 1517
Pressure test to find leak.
Most likely condenser or with rear a/c the rear pipes are a well known weak spot.
Luckily Pete it hasn't got it as its an early HSE (No phone either )The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything;
They just make the best of everything they have.
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