Anyone know what the sound of bubbling coming from my air con unit is. I guess it needs regassing as it has not been running cold since the summer. If it is, anyone know what price should i pay to have it regassed. Steve Holt 97 ZXI.

Dunno about the fault but regassing is usually about £80 tho you can find places as low as £50 I think

tricky situation: air-con.

I had a slight hissing noise and the 'coldness' kept running out too quickly. "it's a leak" I hear you say. Correct, but it cost me £130 to find out WHERE the leak was and now it looks like I'll have to pay for a new condensor so I'm now going for the option of No Air-con and reduced front-end weight!!

....just gonna have to swelter for those 2 days spread over a British summer!! :P

About 7 months ago mine was leaking from an o-ring, repaired it and had it re-gased, worked fine for about 4 weeks then stopped, i think the compressor might have gone because when i used to turn the aircon on you could hear it kick in, but now it don't, i'v checked all the fuses and they're ok, and it looks a pig of a job to get the compressor out

When I switch my aircon on there's no change in engine note or revs, and no evidence of anything kicking into life or whatever. And of course no cold air. I guess that is not good.....

The car is a '98 ZXi with all the relevant hardware.

Last time I had my aircon regassed, the chappie in charge was telling me that they include a certain amount of some kind of lubricant in the gas to protect the compressor. So - if you have a leak and continue to run the aircon without lubricant .... draw your own conclusions !

I had heard about that lubricant before, this could be worth checking out, cheers

I think the system has a safety cut out, that will prevent the compressor from working unless there is a certain level of pressure in the system. This is supposed to prevent 'run dry' and protect the compressor.
Had mine re-gassed about 6 months ago, but its stopped working again. Think there is a leak. If the safety cut out kicks in, then whether the light on the button comes on or not, you will not hear the sys 'klick'

Nick

Cheers Nick, i did'nt know about that, worth getting it re-gased first, i manage to get mine done free as where i work we have air-conditioning plant and some of them run on R134A (used to be R12).

Cheers Nick, i did'nt know about that, worth getting it re-gased first, i manage to get mine done free as where i work we have air-conditioning plant and some of them run on R134A (used to be R12).