After going all last summer without (cold) air conditioning and being under the impression NO PLACE has R12 left (old gas for those not in the know), Ford trying to convince me to go to 134A (newer gas) "that's the only way you'll have cold air"
I finally found an Auto Elec that has R12, Needless to say I'm happy now as the EA is cool :) and Adelaide has a week of +36c temp. (40c today)
Cost $188 for Full re-gas, pressure test system and add a shot of dye to test for leaks, dye shows under UV light (again for those that don't know)
-Disclaimer, had to add the "for those that don't know" parts cos there was a time where i knew sweet nothing about air cond stuff and would have let ford do the full changeover they said i "had to have done".
Now know that not ALL the parts need to be changed anyway, just a select few.
-done with my ramblings for now.
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They advertise that they still have some left so I'm not sure if it's illegal, it was just phased out for enviromental reasons. If they have some it might aswell be in cars than in cylinders sitting in a garage.
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Dunno about automotive air conditioning, but in other applications all that really needs changing when converting to R134A is the oil in the system as R134A is not compatible with the mineral oil used with R12. Really its probably not worth the fuss of searching out someone who has some second hand R12 lying around.
The oil for R134a eats away at the seals for R12, so you really need to change the seals for the conversion, they also have to fit retro-fit valves so that they can fill it.
R12 is illegal to use.
R134a is now being phased out. and being replaced with something else, unsure of what.
ER12 has been used by many places to replace R12, but it has much poorer performance than the original R12.
FR12 is apparently a much better replacement than ER12, but i can't say i have tried it to know myself.
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