AC recharge-VIP Laconia

SailinAway · 05-14-2022, 08:39 AM

It's a bit technical, but there are videos showing how to do it. Not something I would do myself, but maybe you could.

fatlazyless · 05-15-2022, 06:38 AM

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Originally Posted by SailinAway

It's a bit technical, but there are videos showing how to do it. Not something I would do myself, but maybe you could.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz8G3e2yMxA ..... 2015 Subaru Forester with "almost 40,000 miles": A/C not c-o-l-d

After watching this video, paying the VIP-Laconia $163.26 was my smart move because the ac is now running very cold, at least for now, and my car has over 117,000 miles so it probably just lost refrigerant due to slow leaky, aging o-ring seals. The o-rings dry up or something with age?

If this was a Toyota, it would have lost it refrigerant due to similar leakage, FIVE years ago ... !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?_lBFMLYZEzl ..... fast talk'n, 68-year old Scott Kilmer in Tennessee says "is best NOT to do it yourself" as you can do damage with the do-it-yourself $36.97 self-fill refrigerant kit.

SailinAway · 05-15-2022, 08:16 AM

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Originally Posted by fatlazyless

If this was a Toyota, it would have lost it refrigerant due to similar leakage, FIVE years ago ... !

The car I mentioned above was either a Toyota Corolla or a Toyota/Scion xA (I can't recall). Both would have had 140,000 miles or more when I had to add refrigerant.

fatlazyless · 05-15-2022, 08:35 AM

My last car was a Toyota Scion xB 5-speed, purchased new, that I drove till April 2021 and 221,000-miles and the ac worked excellent throughout, with no need for any service.

But, it had a defective 4-cylinder engine that needed a 3/4 quart oil added with every gasoline fill-up, so's I became the #1 biggest user of that Walmart $2.76 oil in the country! ...... plus I got lots experience adding oil in the dark, in the winter, without a funnel, etc ....

It seems this Subaru never ever needs to get oil added, and every 5000-miles, I get the $46.44, 7-am, Castrol Edge oil change and ten dollar tires rotation at the Plymouth NH, Walmart. The $46.44 comes standard with the cheapest Fram filter, but you can upgrade the filter for an extra three or five dollars from the black to silver to gold filter but for 5000-miles of NH 'golden road' driving it probably doesn't matter all that much, which Fram filter.

05-15-2022, 08:35 AM	#4
fatlazyless Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 8,807 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 301 Thanked 1,027 Times in 747 Posts	My last car was a Toyota Scion xB 5-speed, purchased new, that I drove till April 2021 and 221,000-miles and the ac worked excellent throughout, with no need for any service. But, it had a defective 4-cylinder engine that needed a 3/4 quart oil added with every gasoline fill-up, so's I became the #1 biggest user of that Walmart $2.76 oil in the country! ...... plus I got lots experience adding oil in the dark, in the winter, without a funnel, etc .... It seems this Subaru never ever needs to get oil added, and every 5000-miles, I get the $46.44, 7-am, Castrol Edge oil change and ten dollar tires rotation at the Plymouth NH, Walmart. The $46.44 comes standard with the cheapest Fram filter, but you can upgrade the filter for an extra three or five dollars from the black to silver to gold filter but for 5000-miles of NH 'golden road' driving it probably doesn't matter all that much, which Fram filter. __________________ ... down and out, liv'n that Walmart side of the lake!

05-14-2022, 08:39 AM	#1
SailinAway Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2019 Posts: 991 Thanks: 256 Thanked 280 Times in 169 Posts	It's a bit technical, but there are videos showing how to do it. Not something I would do myself, but maybe you could.