How cold is your AC?

[pasadena_commut]

What kind of "contamination" was found? Was there R-12 or another freon blend present? Were there hydrocarbons? Did he see debris in the oil recovered?

Sorry, I have no idea. Whatever it was he didn't say that it represented a serious problem, beyond needing the freon exchanged. To date this mechanic has been very honest - he fixes the things that are really broken, warns about problems that might need attention later, and does not push unnecessary repairs.

 

[pasadena_commut]

That didn't work out too well.

The ambient temperature was 82 F, and while this wasn't in the shade, it was 5:30 PM and the Sun was pretty low. On the P5 the temperature at the outlet dropped to 45 F and then rebounded back to 48 F.

Got around to remeasuring this today. Ambient was 80-81F, in full sun at 11:00AM. The outlet temperature dropped to 43.5F and then rebounded to 45-47F (it was wandering around in that range.) So the service knocked it down 1.5 to 2 degrees, but didn't bring it anywhere near what the manual says it should be.