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General => The garage => Topic started by: speazzzzz on 04 June 2004, 03:51

Title: leaking air con pipe
Post by: speazzzzz on 04 June 2004, 03:51

dealer says there is a hole in my air con pipe, will cost ?137 for the pipe plus the labour, can you guys shed any light on this ? the effect of it ? and a realistic price ?

Title: Re:leaking air con pipe
Post by: shagmeister on 11 June 2004, 17:04

what were the symptoms when this all came on
? think mine might be going down the same line, ta shagmeister

Title: Re:leaking air con pipe
Post by: speazzzzz on 18 June 2004, 05:29

i have no idea, i think there is just a lack of thrust when u use the air con....but havent noticed yet

Title: Re:leaking air con pipe
Post by: papperbear on 18 June 2004, 12:58

I would suggest that a local VW specialist or a air con engineer would be able to fix this cheaper than the stealer!

My climatronic system blows semi cold air out when on the lowest setting so I need to get my system re-gassed, VW wanted ?105 and a local re-fridgeration engineer would do it for about ?45.

The difference between the 2 is that VW will empty all the gas and dispose of it, where as the other guys will just top up the system.

HTH

Title: Re:leaking air con pipe
Post by: Sooty and Sweep on 24 June 2004, 08:24

I may be wrong but... doesn't the air-con gas show up in UV light(blacklight)?

If you hold a uv lamp in the engine bay the leaking gas should light up, revealing the leaky pipe...