Audi 4000 A/C questions

[Richard J. Andrews]

Just go out and have Freeze 12 put in...
it's a drop in replacement and has been used for years in practice without 
any ill affects...
much cheaper than r-12 also...
use only 85-90% of the amount of r-12 that you would though...

HTH!
rich
'86 4kq
(with cold A/C now and r-12)

At 06:17 PM 7/12/01 -0700, you wrote:

>If I have to change to a different compressor, what are my options?
>I checked and noticed that the later Audi 80/90 4-cylinder cars have
>a different bracket and uses a Nippondenso 10P17C compressor.  Is this
>compressor R134a compatible?  If so then maybe the solution is to source
>use that bracket and compressor.
>
>Lastly, Audi doesn't offer a "packaged" R134a retrofit kit for the 4000s,
>but VW does for the Quantum.  Since these two are virtually identical
>under the hood, perhaps the Quantum kit will work on the 4000.  Does anyone
>know what the factory retrofit kit actually includes?