Noisy Aircon

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Andy

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I've noticed a fairly loud hissing/whooshing sound coming from the dash when
the aircon is on and think I read somewhere that this could be due to the
refrigerant gas level being low? The car has rear aircon too and both
systems work, just concerned that this is too noisy and could hint at a
problem, off to France soon and don't want it to conk out during the trip.

Any ideas?


 
Andy <[email protected]> uttered summat worrerz funny about:
> I've noticed a fairly loud hissing/whooshing sound coming from the
> dash when the aircon is on and think I read somewhere that this could
> be due to the refrigerant gas level being low? The car has rear
> aircon too and both systems work, just concerned that this is too
> noisy and could hint at a problem, off to France soon and don't want
> it to conk out during the trip.
> Any ideas?

Our Disco has a weap from the pipe which runs from the condensor under the
battey part no BTR 7230. Several peeps report failures on these pipes, Mines
gone right on the 90 degree bend. I managed to split a hose and clamp on
with some gunk which has slowed the weap down but now our Disco demonstrates
the same hiss under the dash sounds like it's near my left Knee area of the
dashboard. I've put this down to the refrigerant being low too. Ours has
managed to last two years which given the leak is a mere miricle. Landrover
want £87 for the pipe... it's about 12 inches long.... Landrover will be
wanting for a very long time.

Lee D


 
"Lee_D" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Andy <[email protected]> uttered summat worrerz funny about:
>> I've noticed a fairly loud hissing/whooshing sound coming from the
>> dash when the aircon is on and think I read somewhere that this could
>> be due to the refrigerant gas level being low? The car has rear
>> aircon too and both systems work, just concerned that this is too
>> noisy and could hint at a problem, off to France soon and don't want
>> it to conk out during the trip.
>> Any ideas?
>
> Our Disco has a weap from the pipe which runs from the condensor under the
> battey part no BTR 7230. Several peeps report failures on these pipes,
> Mines gone right on the 90 degree bend. I managed to split a hose and
> clamp on with some gunk which has slowed the weap down but now our Disco
> demonstrates the same hiss under the dash sounds like it's near my left
> Knee area of the dashboard. I've put this down to the refrigerant being
> low too. Ours has managed to last two years which given the leak is a
> mere miricle. Landrover want £87 for the pipe... it's about 12 inches
> long.... Landrover will be wanting for a very long time.
>
> Lee D

I am luck enough to have a warranty on mine so will pop it in for a check.

Thanks for the help.
>


 
On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 17:59:07 +0100, Andy wrote:

> I am luck enough to have a warranty on mine so will pop it in for a
> check.

Go for it a re-gas is £100... Mine made strange wheezy gurgly noises from
the dash area when it wasn't working. Not normally audible over engine
and road noise but very noticeable on switch off, with the climate
control on and it cooling rather than warming.

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Cheers [email protected]
Dave. pam is missing e-mail



 

Go for it a re-gas is £100...

Wow. My neighbour is a heating and refrigerant engineer. He says a bottle of
gas is $1.50 ( he is American ). He re-gassed my system in ten minutes flat
for a couple of beers and £10.
£100 sounds like a big rip off to me .
TonyB


 
TonyB wrote:

> Go for it a re-gas is £100...
>
> Wow. My neighbour is a heating and refrigerant engineer. He says a bottle of
> gas is $1.50 ( he is American ). He re-gassed my system in ten minutes flat
> for a couple of beers and £10. £100 sounds like a big rip off to me.
>
> TonyB

It is - but remember this is Britain, land of Bliar and Brown.
 
On Sat, 01 Jul 2006 14:05:38 +0100, Dougal wrote:

>> Go for it a re-gas is £100...
>>
>> Wow. My neighbour is a heating and refrigerant engineer. He says a
>> bottle of gas is $1.50 ( he is American ). He re-gassed my system in
>> ten minutes flat for a couple of beers and £10. £100 sounds like a big
>> rip off to me.
>
> It is - but remember this is Britain, land of Bliar and Brown.

And a Land Rover dealer doing the work, but as this one is under warranty
who cares. B-)

They also add a dye so leaks are obvious. It is a rip off though I had a
new compressor fitted to a fridge/freezer for less, chap came to the unit
to do it as well.

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Cheers [email protected]
Dave. pam is missing e-mail



 
Dave Liquorice <[email protected]> uttered summat worrerz funny about:
>> It is - but remember this is Britain, land of Bliar and Brown.
>
> And a Land Rover dealer doing the work, but as this one is under
> warranty who cares. B-)
>
> They also add a dye so leaks are obvious. It is a rip off though I
> had a new compressor fitted to a fridge/freezer for less, chap came
> to the unit to do it as well.

Ah was going to suggest shopping around, got the Disco purged and gassed on
the drive for £70 two years ago, many will also do it at work too.

Lee


 
Lee_D wrote:
> Dave Liquorice <[email protected]> uttered summat worrerz funny
> about:
>>> It is - but remember this is Britain, land of Bliar and Brown.
>>
>> And a Land Rover dealer doing the work, but as this one is under
>> warranty who cares. B-)
>>
>> They also add a dye so leaks are obvious. It is a rip off though I
>> had a new compressor fitted to a fridge/freezer for less, chap came
>> to the unit to do it as well.
>
> Ah was going to suggest shopping around, got the Disco purged and
> gassed on the drive for £70 two years ago, many will also do it at
> work too.
> Lee

I had mine gassed for £50 2 weeks ago, some folk are gettting ripped off.

Nige


 
On 2006-07-02, Nige <[email protected]> wrote:

> I had mine gassed for £50 2 weeks ago, some folk are gettting ripped off.

Depends on what's done, I had my Audi aircon done for £90 but that
wasn't just re-gassing, it was a full service on the aircon system
including telling me where the small leak was, the garage could only
connect it up to a computer system that ran through a whole sequence
of checks and re-pressurised it, they didn't do simple regassing. I
had another car regassed for £25 cash on the driveway by a bloke with
a pressurised bottle.

--
Blast off and strike the evil Bydo empire!
 
On Sun, 2 Jul 2006 11:46:40 +0100, Nige wrote:

> I had mine gassed for £50 2 weeks ago, some folk are gettting ripped
> off.

At a LR dealers or a general aircon place? Did you go to them or them to
you?

£50 is more like it for them coming to you from a general (or even
automotive) aircon company.

--
Cheers [email protected]
Dave. pam is missing e-mail



 
Dave Liquorice wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Jul 2006 11:46:40 +0100, Nige wrote:
>
>> I had mine gassed for £50 2 weeks ago, some folk are gettting
>> ripped off.
>
> At a LR dealers or a general aircon place? Did you go to them or
> them to you?
>
> £50 is more like it for them coming to you from a general (or even
> automotive) aircon company.

to us


 
On Sun, 2 Jul 2006 18:42:55 +0100, "Nige"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Dave Liquorice wrote:
>> On Sun, 2 Jul 2006 11:46:40 +0100, Nige wrote:
>>
>>> I had mine gassed for £50 2 weeks ago, some folk are gettting
>>> ripped off.
>>
>> At a LR dealers or a general aircon place? Did you go to them or
>> them to you?
>>
>> £50 is more like it for them coming to you from a general (or even
>> automotive) aircon company.
>
>to us
>
Just for interest, Twit Fit are now doing aircon.

Obviously they wont have a clue of what they are doing, but they
GUARANTEE to fix your aircon (outlet air 10% colder than when you
brought the car in (though how a percentage of temperature is a useful
measure is beyong me)) for £45.

Mine is currently working, but I suspect this is a cheap way of
diagnosing if it just low gas causing a system not to work, or
something more involved.

http://www.kwik-fit.com/mot-testing-and-servicing.asp

Incidentally, I had mine done by an "aircon specialist" who had a very
clever piece of Bosch kit which sucked the system down, measured the
amount of refrigerant and oil removed from the system, held a vacuum
for 20 minutes (leak check) then re-gassed with new R134a and oil.
£75.

However, not sure the bloke really knew his stuff. Suspect the machine
was brighter than he was...

David
 
On 2006-07-03, rads <[email protected]> wrote:

> Incidentally, I had mine done by an "aircon specialist" who had a very
> clever piece of Bosch kit which sucked the system down, measured the
> amount of refrigerant and oil removed from the system, held a vacuum
> for 20 minutes (leak check) then re-gassed with new R134a and oil.
> £75.

That's what my local Audi independent uses, hence their stock charge
of £90 even if it just needs a top-up.

> However, not sure the bloke really knew his stuff. Suspect the machine
> was brighter than he was...

Ditto.

--
Blast off and strike the evil Bydo empire!
 
On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 08:53:05 GMT, rads
<[email protected]> wrote:

>On Sun, 2 Jul 2006 18:42:55 +0100, "Nige"
><[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>Dave Liquorice wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2 Jul 2006 11:46:40 +0100, Nige wrote:
>>>
>>>> I had mine gassed for £50 2 weeks ago, some folk are gettting
>>>> ripped off.
>>>
>>> At a LR dealers or a general aircon place? Did you go to them or
>>> them to you?
>>>
>>> £50 is more like it for them coming to you from a general (or even
>>> automotive) aircon company.
>>
>>to us
>>
>Just for interest, Twit Fit are now doing aircon.
>
>Obviously they wont have a clue of what they are doing, but they
>GUARANTEE to fix your aircon (outlet air 10% colder than when you
>brought the car in (though how a percentage of temperature is a useful
>measure is beyong me)) for £45.
>

Hmmm, you could really tie them in knots. Go in at 20 deg C and
demand that they get outlet air at -10 deg C, because if they are
taking 10% of the heat out they need to work in the Kelvin scale...

Our friend with the cross-axled Freelander no doubt has them in his
sights already.


--

Tim Hobbs

'58 Series 2 88" aka "Stig"
'03 Volvo V70
'06 Nissan Navara aka "The Truck"
 
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