Aircon Warm Air!

Discussion in 'Gen 2 Prius Care, Maintenance and Troubleshooting' started by Sam Dean, Jul 2, 2013.

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  1. Britprius

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    Those "orange tubes" are 500 volt cables from the inverter to run the variable speed electric motor in the compressor.
    Anything orange in the Prius is high voltage.

    John (Britprius)
     
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    they repaired the front end of the car and re-fitted alot of parts, so i'm pretty confident that the oil has not been replaced...

    how could i check this?
     
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    John, I have a bad feeling about the whole of this aircon system

    The fact that the electrics are screwed says a lot

    Maybe when they put it all back together, they used standard aircon pag oil and then ran it, and then maybe it damaged the whole circuit and took the other parts with it?

    Can I pump dye into the system so I can spot any leaks visually?

    Leaks may be the least of my problems though if they have incorrectly re-installed the aircon system
     
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    The PAG oil only damages the electric motor and throws a code for that disabling the car so that is unlikely. The most likely thing is either they filled it and it has a leak or they did not pay to have it filled. An evacuation would quickly find if there was a leak. I will post more of my thoughts on this and the history of the sale of the car later. as I have a very busy day today. I will log in this evening with my thoughts.

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    Thank you John :)

    Okay - on the evacuation side of things - I can see that the vacuum pump and measuring meters can be purchased from the US, all under £80 - which isn't the end of the world, and atleast that way, I would be able to re-charge my AC system in the future aswell

    Speak later

    cheers
     
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    Sam do some checks on the availability of the oil and it's price before buying gauges ect.

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    ND11 oil? or oil for the actual vacuum pump?
     
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    ND11 oil, also check the price of a bottle of R134A.

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    okay - just going to have a look on ebay...

    one more thing - in order to detect leaks - is it worth buying some AC dye aswell - so any leaks show up more easily?
     
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    Just got off the phone to Toyota and they sell the 0.4 litre bottle of ND11 oil for a whopping £134!!!

    That's crazy

    i need to figure out a way to check if this oil is still in my AC system
     
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    just to add - the part number for this is:

    08885-09129

    and they recommend putting 0.2 litres into the AC system
     
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    Just got off the phone to Interdynamics Inc and they sell 7 oz. pourable bottles, each for $7.74

    7 oz is approximately 0.2 Litres, which matches up to Toyota's recommended amount.

    Interdynamics themselves have a minimum order value of $300 but it's still good to know that there is somebody out there selling this oil at a much cheaper rate
     
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