endfro

It's to hot here!

In Minneapolis its been around 90+ degrees every day. And my A/C doesnt work. Does anyone have any ideas as to why the A/C on my 91 P10 doesnt work? I have been told that I probably need to get the A/C re-charged. But I'm not sure I want to spend the money for that and have it not work..

1PNYBOY

You have to take it in to get it checked. It may very well need freon. But, if it needs freon, that means you have a leak. Freon is not something you run out of unless it's leaking. You don't use freon. I would probably suggest converting to r134a and then recharge it. It's pretty inexpensive to convert.

endfro

That sounds cool. How much do you think it will be to get it converted?

primera man

What does this stuff look like. Do you notice it or does it vaporize really quickly ??
On my wife's car its no where near as good as mine in the summer

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pearl-p10

I actualy heard that converting the r134a can be very expensive on the g's. Also you may want to keep in mind that they are thinking of baning r134a in the u.s.. Just like they did with freon (r-12). Also to answer your question no there is no way for you to notice where it is leaking from. If your in new jersy you may want to see if freon is illegal in canada. It may be worth the drive. When I bought my car the ac didn't work. I just made the 2 hour trip to mexico and had my leaks sealed, a new compressor installed, and almost 4 pounds of freon added. Here it would have cost me well over $1000. There it was all done for $50 plus the $10 tip I gave the guy. But if I were you I wouldn't convert to r134a because soon it will be illegal, also it is not nearly as cold as freon.

1PNYBOY

It's really not that expensive. It's about $50.00 for the conversion kit, about 1 hr labor and about two pounds of r134 at about $8.00 a pound. The shop may tell you that you have to change some components in order for it to work, but you don't. All of ypur components that worked with R12 will work with r134. I would probably recommend changing the drier to get a better cooling effect, but you don't have to. Just make sure that the shop only recharges to 80% of the old r12 level(i.e. 1 lb of r12 you would use .8lb of r134). R134 works at a higher pressure than r12, if the recharge it to the orignal r12 level, then it may blow a seal. As for the banning of r134, probably not for a long, long, long time. R12 is still around and after about 10 years that they stopped putting it in new cars. Anyway, I was just suggesting an option.

pearl-p10

PNYBOY I didn't mean any offense I was just stating what I have been told here in AZ.

1PNYBOY

No offense taken Pearle, really. We're cool. You and I were just offering different suggestions. There's nothing wrong with that and I would never take offense to someone elses opinion.