Recon's Perils!!!

I have been working on car after car and the greatest problem encountered by owners so far is those reconditioned compressor unit.

There is nothing wrong with the compressor unit in terms of installation and gas charging. The problem lies with the amount of oil that is supposed to be top up too.

Common findings:

1) No new oil. (Extremely dirty oil flushed out.)

2) Oil treatment used instead. (At least got use oil but normally overfilled the system.)

3) Too much gas.

4) Not enough gas.

5) System not flushed but still charged up with fresh oil. (Overfilled system.)

6) Not enough oil in system.

The list still goes on and on...

"This is the third compressor that I have in my car..."

"Got oil in system? Something new!"

"Air con compressor can be serviced, really?"

ETC...

If you feel that your air con system is behaving strange lately, sometimes it is already too late.

So far, cars with the most times of compressor changed are... EVOs and EVOs, then WRXs.

If you have a monster in the bonnet, you better keep your air con check'ED! Mitsubishi tops my lists now. I have only worked on a few EVOs and almost all have recon'ed units. Subaru is not uncommon but don't add to the stats.