Aircon W124

[stephen coy]

Seeing as it's been nearly a year since you posted this, and I was thinking of trying the same approach, is the system still blowing cold air? Would you recommend Duracool?

My car stood barely used for 5 years or so, and during that time the aircon gas leaked out, and the seals dried up. If I can bring it back to life without an expensive rebuild then it's worth a go.

The A/C ran nice and cold for a month or so and then the system starting becoming less so. I checked the pressure of the system and it had dropped, so assume a significant leak/wear somewhere. Decided I did'nt wish to throw any more cash at it.

A problem with investing largish cash sums into an old car is that sometimes another issue/issues come along soon after finishing with the previous, denting one's enthusiam. Guess that's why most cars grow old gracefully, the owners running them on a shoestring !

 

[johnsco]

It is easy to throw large sums of money on air con on old cars.
I've done it more than once.

It surprises me that you can buy an off-the-shelf can to re-gas your air con without vaccing-down the system first.
Perhaps this is why the weights of gas in the cans is less than the theoretical weight.
If you're not starting with a vacuum, then you will get less in.

 

[BlueQuinn]

Sounds like I get it professionally fixed and converted to R134a, or leave it alone then. If that's all that needs doing, and everything else works, what do you think it's likely to cost me?

 

[GP801]

To give you an idea we had a 300E-24 that was converted to the new gas and had a new condenser/compresser to get it to work. Was about £700 five years ago.

 

[BlueQuinn]

Cool, that's really helpful, cheers.