DIY Air Con re gas can/kit???

[kris30]

Hello, been a while since I've made a post, so long in fact that the site made me re-register!!!

Anyway.....

I saw in Halfords the other day a DIY Air Conditioning Re-Gas kit, it has all the lube, gas, pressure gauge and other stuff in it.

Question is, has anybody tried using it? what were the results?

I prefer doing all the the car Diy stuff myself so this seemed like the ideal bit of kit, seeing as my air con is cool rather than cold!

Any info or advice is welcome,

Look forward to your replies,

Kris

 

[television]

Welcome back, we all had a long talk over this a few weeks back and the general concencous was have it done by an air con man, you could do a search only a few weeks back

 

[Parrot of Doom]

Best pay someone to do it, you need to evacuate all moisture from the system, I don't think the DIY kits will do that for you.

 

[kris30]

Re-gas

Thanks for you're replies,

I'll have a look at previous posts.

I was thinking the same my self, about getting it done by a pro, the guy I spoke to 'said' that he'd remove all the old stuff, clean the system and leak check, lube and refill, all for £60, which seems cheap to me, even MB 'only' wanted £80 plus VAT.

The kit from Halfords is £40 and its a top up not a re-gas.

More research, but swaying to the 'Pro'.

Cheers again,

Kris.

 

[JONRW]

Kwik fit do a re-gas for £44.00, we had a post about this about a month ago.

 

[Blobcat]

There is another thread running at the moment quite similar; http://forums.mercedesclub.org.uk/showthread.php?t=28385

I would do a search for threads by AndyW for Air Con.

 

[Phil D]

I saw the Halfords ad which was 40 quid or 50 if they did it for you. Fortunately the only guy trained to do it was on his day off so I left & remembered that Kwik Fit were now doing aircon. For 45 quid they did a proper job, tested for leaks, and the print out showed min temp 14 degrees before, 5 degrees after, well pleased
Phil

 

[kris30]

Thanks a lot for all your replies, I'm starting the research now into the best deal
Thanks again, Kris

 

[jibcl500]

Well driving the new A160 last night the AC was freezing cold and 5 miles later its not cold. So I will try this kwik fit regas on the A and the CL and report back.

jib