[Vwdiesel] AC in 91 Jetta service question

[Dave Cook]

You can get a kit with a gauge from a FLAPS.  It was in the neighborhood of $50 or so.  It is a reasonably nice-ish gauge for shade-tree use that came with fittings for both high and low side readings.  Then if needed you can top off with a can freon.  

My sister was always asking me to help her top off her car's a/c so for her birthday I gave her a simpler gauge.  It had some kind of function where you could adjust it to the current ambient temperature, and the correct range would be highlighted.  You simply top it off until the needle is in the right range.

Long story short, I don't know why you couldn't do it yourself.

Dave Cook


--- On Fri, 6/5/09, mikitka <mikitka at embarqmail.com> wrote:

> From: mikitka <mikitka at embarqmail.com>
> Subject: [Vwdiesel] AC in 91 Jetta service question
> To: vwdiesel at vwfans.com
> Date: Friday, June 5, 2009, 1:38 AM
> I had the AC system converted to
> 134a.  Every year since I had it serviced
> it would last through out the summer months but by the
> following year it
> would not cool even though the compressor would still run.
> I would take it
> in and they would service it with 134a and that would be
> it. Another summer
> of great cooling and another $40 out of my pocket. They
> have done this for
> the past three years and each time they look for the leak
> but can't find it.
> ( I personally think that it is under the dash and they
> just don't want to
> bother with it since it is a pain to get too) anyway I was
> wondering if I
> could service it with Freon myself. If so how and with what
> recommendations
> from a parts store to get and where do I connect it
> too?  Or should I just
> pay another $40 and have an AC shop do it each year.
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>  
> 
> Nick
> 
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