Noisy Aircon

Andy uttered summat worrerz funny about:

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.

Go for it a re-gas is =A3100... Mine made strange wheezy gurgly noises f= rom 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.

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.

And a Land Rover dealer doing the work, but as this one is under warrant= y 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 uni= t to do it as well.

Dave Liquorice uttered summat worrerz funny about:

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

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.

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

=A350 is more like it for them coming to you from a general (or even automotive) aircon company.

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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.

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

David

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

Ditto.

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.