Another 'RECON''ed air con with such problem.

After 2nd flushing. More 'black particles' are flushed out.

After 1st flushing.

I worked on another car yesterday that has a air con compressor swapped out for a 'recon'ed unit. I believe the swap was less than half a year ago.

Complaints are air con came on and off, off at traffic lights, etc...

Upon flushing, I realized lots of black particles are found in the flushed out oil. During optimization, the system seemed 'choked' but it was not as bad before work.

Indeed, after flushing the whole system a second time, more 'black particles' were removed. This is the worst case I had ever come across to date.

Finally, the system is able to be optimized and system runs fine.

Dear friends, if you are diagnosed with air con compressor failure by someone, please make sure you know where is your car being checked. With regular servicing, your air con compressor would normally out last the numbers of years that you are going to be with your ride.

Very bad oil with lots of black particles.

Just before the holidays last week, this beautiful EVO IX came in for servicing. During the routine checks, the air con compressor oil was found to be very dirty.

According to the owner, his air con compressor was just been replaced with a recon unit. Apparently, the air con system was not flushed. Upon flushing the system, the old oil has lots of tiny black particles floating around.

These tiny particles would soon choke the thermal expansion valve within and there goes another day in the workshop for rectification and another big bill.

Car owners are advised to have their air con system flushed yearly or every 40,000km.