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HYBRID auto shops and PRIUS Specialty Repair shops ***! WARNING !*** if you have old a/c recharge equipment or if you have just recived a customer with a/c problem from another shop you know only has one a/c recharge unit and a old one at that. There has been high cross contamination or PAG oil into Prius electric A/C system and air mix. If you are a shop who send your customers cars to a a/c shop down the street, next door or across town, haw and with what that shop recharges refrigerant into your customers A/C system will hurt your reputation if they are taking short cuts and not keeping up with changing technology in the automotive HVAC ( A/C ) industry. NEVER use a A/C recharging unit on a regular R134a PAG oil car and then use it on a hybrid A/C car. And to protect your customers Prius EXPENSIVE electric compressor and your shop name install (A/C CHARGE GUARD for HYBRIDS ) web page http://www.airsept.com/index.php?loadmod=acchargeguard about $600+ as a shop we should be part of the fix not part of the problem!. It is a two way street when you pull refrigerant out of a car that have mixed oil and sealants added to it you do not want them to get into your vary expensive A/C recharge unit. When you are recovering refrigerant out of a car you should add a recycle guard around $350. web page http://www.airsept.com/index.php?loadmod=dualrg A small price to pay if you think of just one hybrid electric compressor $ cost and flush out the entire a/c system, replace the dryer and lost shop time + a not so happy customer. For shop owner and TECHs visiting PriusChat and doing or thinking about doing your own A/C service in house you will want to protect each of your A/C recharge machines, one for R134a PAG oil cars, one for R134a hybrids ESTER oil cars and TWO for the NEW R1234YF refrigerant cars PAG based and hybrid ESTER electric based. At around $5000 starting for the good ones each you will have a investment you will want to take care of. Some times when TECHs are in a rush mistakes happen and are not caught untill after the fact. If you had this item installed on all your A/C recharge units you would not have to worry about damage to your machine or customers car.