I just went out to refill my air conditioning with an A/C Pro home refill kit and let's just say I have questions.
Just some background info - I've never had the air conditioning serviced or refilled since I've had the car, and that's fourteen years.
I followed all the instructions - attached the trigger to the low pressure side (without the refill bottle attached) on the lower left side of the engine bay, checked the gauge and it went straight to the 'alert' reading.
Turned the engine over, turned on air recirculation and put the AC on high, and I saw that the needle dropped down to the 'filled' reading on the gauge.
When the compressor kicked in, the needle went down to 'low', but when the compressor turned off it went back to 'filled'.
Ran the engine for three minutes as instructed and the car wasn't getting any cooler. Turned the engine off and the gauge went way up:
There's a high chance I'm doing something wrong - maybe I should have attached the refill bottle or something instead of doing the check without it, but the manufacturer's video showed them doing it without the canister attached - but I know my car isn't icy cold and so something's gone wrong somewhere along the line.
It sounds like all the components are doing what they should, but something doesn't add up. If anyone's done this before or knows a bit about the AC system, I'd love to hear from you - I'm going to be driving through France in a fortnight and I'm really going to need some icy goodness...
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Just some background info - I've never had the air conditioning serviced or refilled since I've had the car, and that's fourteen years.
I followed all the instructions - attached the trigger to the low pressure side (without the refill bottle attached) on the lower left side of the engine bay, checked the gauge and it went straight to the 'alert' reading.
Turned the engine over, turned on air recirculation and put the AC on high, and I saw that the needle dropped down to the 'filled' reading on the gauge.
When the compressor kicked in, the needle went down to 'low', but when the compressor turned off it went back to 'filled'.
Ran the engine for three minutes as instructed and the car wasn't getting any cooler. Turned the engine off and the gauge went way up:
There's a high chance I'm doing something wrong - maybe I should have attached the refill bottle or something instead of doing the check without it, but the manufacturer's video showed them doing it without the canister attached - but I know my car isn't icy cold and so something's gone wrong somewhere along the line.
It sounds like all the components are doing what they should, but something doesn't add up. If anyone's done this before or knows a bit about the AC system, I'd love to hear from you - I'm going to be driving through France in a fortnight and I'm really going to need some icy goodness...
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