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PT:2 how to properly top off your AC (!! NOT !!)

Discussion in 'Gen 3 Prius Care, Maintenance & Troubleshooting' started by lech auto air conditionin, Jul 22, 2019.

  1. lech auto air conditionin

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    Part two of dirty little GEN three

    After seeing that air filter for the cabin you could not properly charge your air conditioning even if you tried or even if you knew how to with a partially restricted air filter like that.
    Using the canned from the store with just a single little low side pressure gauge will tell you nothing correctly if you have restricted airflow going across your evaporator. Using the app low side pressure gauge on the low side fitting will tell you absolutely nothing while you are clueless charging up the low side pressure but not even have a clue of what’s going on with the high side pressure. Often I get these after the compressor is burnt up and the customer will need to pay a few thousand dollars to have the system flushed out and components replaced. Thanks to those guys on YouTube with their big channels who tell you (“how to top off your AC refrigerant”) yes because many air conditioning systems are pretty forgiving up to a certain extent some people get by adding the cans and they are happy because they feel cold blowing out the dash. But for the other percentage of people that it fails and burn up a compressor this is what happens when you guess and follow bad advice about people who don’t even know enough that they don’t even know what they’re doing their successes is by guessing and luck. Their failures oh well I guess your compressor is bad you’ll have to buy a new one. And there’s a problem with the other guys who don’t even use a vacuum pump to correctly remove all the air and moisture out of a contaminated system. The moisture combines with the refrigerant making an acid that eats away at aluminum parts internally Breaking down compressor oil and on electric compressors eats away at the insulation on the high-voltage windings. The car works at first blows cold but the damage is something that’s done over a longer period of time later on so the person who caused the damage never gets blamed for what they did because they don’t even know they were the ones responsible for causing the damage due to ignorance.
     
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