Talking of Aircon ...

I took it for granted that they all do, nowadays. :-)

Didn't Ford introduce the first through-flow ventilation system on the early Cortina?

Unless you count my dad's 1936 Standard 10, with a windscreen which could be wound open, very useful in fog.

Yep.

Chris

True. ;-)

Mate has the air-con equipment supplier coming in tomorrow (by chance as it has it) and he said he will ask them about the use of the dye and his machine.

That said, I think I saw that you can get a small hand held tool that allows you to administer a metered quantity of dye to a fully charged system?

Cheers, T i m

Our next door neighbour has an O4 1.6 Focus and he quite enjoys using his heated screen when we are still scraping ice by hand. ;-)

Mind you, he's also had 3 windscreens since buying the car new but there may be no connection between the fact that it's heated and such breakages.

Cheers, T i m

It is like a little tiny pump, you just inject the dye on the low pressure side with the system running, then look around with a uv light.

A manual pump? I saw 'kits ranging from 50 quid (that looked like said manual, 'twist the end to inject some dye') to 300+ quid for what looks like a professional setup?

Ok, (I don't know much about the physical actual but know how they work in principal etc).

Would a UV torch be any good for illuminating the stuff? They seem cheap enough and presumably would offer a reasonable spread of light?

Should you always wear eye protection with this sort of UV (I think there is 'hard and 'soft' ) or are you generally ok if you don't shine it in your own face sort of thing?

Cheers, T i m

just a little cheap pump, any uv light will do, certainly you should not stare into it, you can get glasses that enhance the effect, but if you are in shadow then it shows up quite well in any case.

Thanks.

Cheers, T i m

Because there will be some residue of moisture in the system, from when it was last used. That will quickly disappear once the a/c gets going. Recirculate is the correct mode to use with a/c on, to quickly dry out the air in the car - easier to quicly dry just the air inside the car, than a constant fresh flow. No good if you lack a/c though, because the out side air will be drier.