The Trainer #77 - A/C Service Challenges

It’s cold, rainy and dismal outside as it should be when it’s still mid-February in New York. But by the time you read this in the magazine, it’s well into the 2018 A/C service season - and it may be season to remember for a number of reasons! Visit MotorAge.com/MayAC to register for the 5/26 webinar building on this Trainer.
One that immediately comes to mind is the number of cars leaving warranty that are filled with R1234yf. Have you tried buying any lately? As a matter of curiosity, have you tried buying ANY refrigerant lately? We know that many of you that have learned the hard way that you can’t just walk into your local parts house anymore and purchase R134a or R1234yf without being able to produce our EPA Section 609 certification.
EPA certification? What’s that? You know, it’s that little card that you have to have in your pocket to legally service any automotive refrigerant system. The one that most of us totally forgot about since the R12 days.
Back to R1234yf. Are you prepared to service these out of warranty customers? Do you have the proper equipment? RRR (Recovery, Recycle, Recharge) machines certified to SAE standards relating to R1234yf are not the same as the R134a machines you’re used to and no, you can’t just add adaptors to the old machine. Performing a refrigerant ID test prior to recovery is mandatory on R1234yf systems as is both a pressure and vacuum decay leak test prior to recharging. And there’s good reasons for all of it, reasons we’ll discuss in this month’s edition of “The Trainer."
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Nice !

[@PaulyD0859]

Have you moved south of the equator? Because up here, in the Northern Hemisphere, we’re still about 8 months from A/C season.

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