Air con re-gas - good t warm again

[Ian Geary]

Hi there

The wife's 2007 swift had air conditioning hat wasn't cold.since we purchased it.

Took it for a re-gas at a tyre fitting place with one of those machines they just plug it into: £75 and an hour later and it was freezing cold.

Their thermometer showed about 8 degrees in the vent with ambient temps about 25. All good. They were really busy so I got no printout of what they did etc.

Next day- fine

Day after - not cold
Day after that - not cold either

Just taken it out myself and had a look.
- the air con belt is tight
- there are enough puddles or weeping of refrigerant I can see

and with air con switched on
- the radiator fan comes on
- the idle up speed increase engages correcly

But air remains at ambient temp. Simple me thinks maybe there's a leak of refrigerant? That takes 2 days to empty.

But I recall the systems used by garages should check for leaks before refiling?

The compressor does seem hot to the touch, but it's next to the catalytic converter so it could just be heat soak.


Has anyone had any experience of air con faults like this?

I tempted to go back to the garage and moan, but they are a tyre/ exhaust place and don't really do air con diagnostic work as such. I could probably get a free air con check out of them if I pushed I suppose.

Thanks

Ian

[Ian Geary]

Thanks - I have the day off Friday so will head back there.

[Ian Geary]

Thanks

I'll take more of a look over the weekend then