Popped down to the Paint shop today with another bloke on this forum. Maxx.
Went over the car and pointed bits out, he is going to fix them up. He seems to think he will be able to get the bad orange peel, dry & runs out by buffing or something.. Only time will tell.
I've spoke to my insurance company and they are ready to pounce so to speak. If worse comes to worse they will send me to another paint shop and that paint shop will bill the current paint shop. Not sure how it works for the other 3/4 of the car that I paid for though.
While I was there I showed them the Airconditioner.. He asked me to come back at 4pm. So I did.
He hooked it back up to the pressure guages and had a look at it. He said.. Oh your Compressor sounds strange, sounds like it is stuffed.
I'll have to drain everything out and fill it back up again.
Not happy with that I passed through another Aircon place that in the passed worked on my cars.
Instantly he said "Holy shit, I've never seen so much water in a system"
I had a look and sure enough the receiver drier has heaps of bubble type looking things in it.
He said what is happening is the Compressor is turning and the water is causing the compressor to hydraulic (water doesn't compress) where it immediately turns back off.
He has disconnected the AC compressor and told me to get the water out ASAP and replace the receiver drier.
He said to get on to my insurance company and give them his details so they can contact him should things go sour.