Air Con service/refresh

melbury

mobileron wrote: »

Have a look on woucher,costs £40 for check and refill

Is there a website just called voucher? Or do you mean somewhere on this website?

Thanks.

oldagetraveller

melbury wrote: »

Is there a website just called voucher? Or do you mean somewhere on this website?

Thanks.

"woucher":)


I use a cleaner/sanitiser aerosol once a year.
I had my car's a/c checked last year, at 4 years old, it had lost around 50g of the 350g charge of refrigerant gas (R134a). As has been said, connect to a machine, evacuate, pull a vacuum (moisture removal and leak detect) and refill with correct mass of gas and oil. The machine does it all. £40 at a local independent. Main stealers wanted £95 for the same thing!
My a/c is on all year, climate control system.

VFR

Pollen filter should be the first job & every year IMO.

melbury

oldagetraveller wrote: »

"woucher":)


I use a cleaner/sanitiser aerosol once a year.
I had my car's a/c checked last year, at 4 years old, it had lost around 50g of the 350g charge of refrigerant gas (R134a). As has been said, connect to a machine, evacuate, pull a vacuum (moisture removal and leak detect) and refill with correct mass of gas and oil. The machine does it all. £40 at a local independent. Main stealers wanted £95 for the same thing!
My a/c is on all year, climate control system.

Thank you so much, sorry didn't notice the "w":o

coffeehound

nickcc wrote: »

Just about the same risk as any aircon wether fixed or mobile. Changing the pollen filter on a regular basis should help but there's not much else you can do. There's no way you can reach the heat exchangers/evaporator anyway so using an antibacterial spray seems a bit pointless to me.

Something else you can do before leaving a car to stand for a while is dry out the evap coil area. Switch off the A/C while driving* and leave the fan running for a good while. Since bacteria like damp, that should keep them in check.

*Send the air to the face wents rather than windscreen though, or it will fog up!

jimbo6977

when you motor is already warm run the heater on full whack/max temp and the aircon at the same time.

the raised temp will kill any bacteria.

longwalks1

I change the pollen filter in both our cars every year (easy to get at and about £10 each), theres bound to be a tutorial on YouTube for your car.


I also use the can you leave in the car, think its called 'aircon bomb', about £14 for 2 cans delivered. Crack it open in the car with aircon on recirculate and let it work.

ptrichardson

3 different things

1 - Recharge the coolant gasses in the Air Con system - To make sure the system is running at the correct pressure, and so you get the best performance

2 - Deodorise. As people have said, the cans you buy and set off in the car do the job for a few quid

3 - Filters. Always change the filters, all of them, at regular intervals. The cabin-filer or pollen-filter is the one associated with the air con system

Just saying "An AC service" doesn't mean anything - it could be #1 or #3, or all 3 of them.

coffeehound

jimbo6977 wrote: »

when you motor is already warm run the heater on full whack/max temp and the aircon at the same time.

the raised temp will kill any bacteria.

Perhaps I'm missing something, but what's the point of running the aircon if you want to raise the temperature?

mobileron

Because its not aircon any more,its climate control,you should leave it on all year long. It will also demist your windows.