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1995 850 Air Conditioning

Help, Advice and DIY Tutorials on Volvo's P80 platform cars -- Volvo's 1990s "bread and butter" cars -- powered by the ubiquitous and durable Volvo inline 5-cylinder engine.

1992 - 1997 850, including 850 R, 850 T-5R, 850 T-5, 850 GLT
1997 - 2000 S70, S70 AWD
1997 - 2000 V70, V70 AWD
1997 - 2000 V70-XC
1997 - 2004 C70

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Eddie
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1995 850 Air Conditioning

Post by Eddie »

My a/c has pin hole leaks in it. My repair guys charges me $200 bucks a year to seal it up to last me the summer. Other than replacing the entire system, is this the only solution?

The problem is the vehicle has over 200k on her and is only worth about $1,500 bucks. To do the entire AC will cost me at least that.

Let me know if anyone has any other solutions.

Thanks

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Post by MadeInJapan »

How does he seal it up? I've never heard that it will really work. I've only seen the evaporator replacement as the true fix. That's $1000-1200 if you're lucky....many places charge up to $1500....as the dash has to come all the way out.
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billofdurham
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Post by billofdurham »

I think we would all like to know what he uses! Certainly the chap who looks after my air con has never heard of anything like this and he has been in the trade for 25+ years.

If you can find out what it is let us know, please.
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1996 850GLT 2.5 20v Estate Manual.
1995 Peugeot Boxer 2.5Tdi Autosleeper.
Previously:
1984 244DL, Manual, Beige.
1987 744GLE, Manual, Green.
1991 960 3.0 24v, Auto, Silver.
1994 940T Wentworth, Auto, Blue.

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Post by l33tDad »

What about the Duracool System Seal stuff? It says that it's designed to fix small leaks... Eh, who knows.

http://www.duracool.com/Duracool/acsolutions.html
1993 Volvo 850glt

225,000 miles and counting

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