Air Con System Flushing

[foznice]

Evening peoples,

My car's being imported, and as many of you know part of the process is degassing the air conditioning system before it travels oversease (anyone know why?)

I've heard that some people have special equipment to flush out the airconditioning system of dirt and any other crap that may have accumulated in the piping in the time that the canister has been disconnected and the pipes are left in the open.

Before regassing the system I thought it would be a good idea to have it thouroughly cleaned out.. if your gonna do it you might as well do it well..

sooooooooooooooo.... does anyone know anyone particulary good who may be able to do this cheaply?

Do most car airconditioning specialists have the required equipment to clean out the system?

Cheers , and merry christmas

[MFC05]

a few of my mates who are private importers they do the dodgy by not brothering Degassing the air-con im not to sure what will happen if u dont apparently the gasses they use in japan are differnt from here i donno why it has to be degassed

all i know is my mates 300s and R32s all didnt get desgassed and still got imported !!

[dezz]

hmmm i forgot all about getting mine re gassed, but when i checked my car out at UPI, i tured on the A/C after the car had been running a while, and the air it was blowing was pretty cold...

now im not an A/C expert, but does de-gassing mean it shouldnt be blowing cold air like it normally would until its been regassed?

[Paradizzle]

33's after 1994 or something have the required refrigerant in them so they dont need to be degassed in Japan. Mine wasnt degassed and got through Customs fine.

[dezz]

interesting. my invoice for the car in japan after the auction lists

"de-gas" on it as well as transportation to the dock etc, doesnt say air con...just de-gas...

i dont really care, as long as i dont get bird flu/SARS when i have my A/C on, and that it blows cold air

[foznice]

dezz, was it cold on the day you checked it? Because it may have just been blowing outside air (which was cold)...

but yeah with mine being degassed and all.. I don't think they did it properly.. they just ripped out the canister and let all the refrigerent into the atmosphere.. the crackers didn't even bother to block off the lines.. Otherwise I wouldn't be writing this now and this thread would't exist....

[dezz]

lol it was actually fkin hot that day....like i was sweating hot. copped a tan hot. hot women at the shopping centre near upi dressed in nothing hot !

[foznice]

rofl.. well I guess your airconditioning is gased good!!

[NateR31]

where abouts are you? when im back to work ill give you some details of the man to see

[foznice]

I'm in greensborough/eltham/diamond creek... but I'd be happy to travel to someone who does a superior job

[cln]

also interested in this! any help would be appreaciated

[NateR31]

well this guy is based in moorabin, ill get his details on weds

[Kaz200]

Regent St Autoelecs or something like that are good.. in reservoir on high st near the Reservoir. They have a crappy looking workshop so you know they're good and won't rip you off! No seriously, very honest guys there, but the area and parking's not great so I wouldn't want to leave the car there overnight or anything.

[foznice]

Thanks guys, I spoke to someone on the phone just then about it, and he said that they don't usually flush cars of my age (I can't remember what he said exactly) - for some reason..., It's not a good idea to run things through the system, he said instead just run it under vaccum for an hour or so, then regass.....