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Posted 19 June 2017
Car Air-Con Recharge £28.95 @ ATS Euromaster (Groupon - Up to 43% Off)
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£28.95 for a car air-con recharge service (40% off)
£32.95 for a car air-con recharge service and an anti-bacterial treatment (43% off)
Car air-con systems can be refreshed with this one-hour recharge and optional anti-bacterial cleaning treatment
Technicians will perform a pressure test to detect leaks in the air-con system; if none are detected, the service will go ahead and the air-con system will be recharged, meaning that drivers can stay cool when out on the road
Expires 2 Aug 2017. Limit 1 per person, may buy 1 addtional as gift. Booking required by phone, please find contact details online via atseuromaster.co.uk/cen…con. Present printed Groupon voucher on arrival. 24-hour cancellation policy. Voucher cannot be used with online bookings on the ATS Euromaster website. Excludes electric and hybrid vehicles. Not valid for system repairs. Air Con Services not available at every ATS Euromaster Centre. Valid for various locations Mon-Sat. Applies to vehicles with R134A refrigerant gas only. Vehicles with R1234YF refrigerant gas are excluded. For details of the refrigerant gas used in your vehicle refer to your vehicle manufacturer handbook. Groupon is the seller of voucher, but ATS Euromaster are responsible for fulfilling all services included in the offer. Cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer. Full terms and conditions for both offers can be found at atseuromaster.co.uk/spe…ns. Verified using our merchant’s website on 8 May 2016.
£28.95 for a car air-con recharge service (40% off)
£32.95 for a car air-con recharge service and an anti-bacterial treatment (43% off)
Car air-con systems can be refreshed with this one-hour recharge and optional anti-bacterial cleaning treatment
Technicians will perform a pressure test to detect leaks in the air-con system; if none are detected, the service will go ahead and the air-con system will be recharged, meaning that drivers can stay cool when out on the road
Expires 2 Aug 2017. Limit 1 per person, may buy 1 addtional as gift. Booking required by phone, please find contact details online via atseuromaster.co.uk/cen…con. Present printed Groupon voucher on arrival. 24-hour cancellation policy. Voucher cannot be used with online bookings on the ATS Euromaster website. Excludes electric and hybrid vehicles. Not valid for system repairs. Air Con Services not available at every ATS Euromaster Centre. Valid for various locations Mon-Sat. Applies to vehicles with R134A refrigerant gas only. Vehicles with R1234YF refrigerant gas are excluded. For details of the refrigerant gas used in your vehicle refer to your vehicle manufacturer handbook. Groupon is the seller of voucher, but ATS Euromaster are responsible for fulfilling all services included in the offer. Cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer. Full terms and conditions for both offers can be found at atseuromaster.co.uk/spe…ns. Verified using our merchant’s website on 8 May 2016.
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sorted byThey dont care if theres a leak. Its irresponsible really as they know that the refrigerant is harmful to the environment.
Money will be better spent at a local independant garage, if it isn't already £30 they will probably do it for that if you explain you would rather put the money into a local business rather than national cowboys, yeah it will be a quid more but you are keeping a local company going and chance is they will be honest with you should it be faulty.
The last place I went to took £20 off me for his time as it had a bit more gas than needed as I chucked a 1l tin in the year before.
Easy money as they hook it up and leave it to do it's thing for 30 minutes.
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Can you prove that? I used them last time this deal was on, got my aircon done by ATS Eastleigh in March. They said they did a nitrogen leak test and my aircon is still cold in June. If they didn't do a nitrogen leak test for you, you could argue they're not doing the service correctly. Heat from me for the price.
They dont care if theres a leak. Its irresponsible really as they know that the refrigerant is harmful to the environment.
Local ATS claimed there was no leaks etc, yet rather suspiciously I lost all the refrigerant within a week of them topping it up.
Personally I reckon their machine blew a seal or something, bloody crooks
If the air con is still pushing out cold air, there's no need to charge it - so I would stay clear until that changes.
It depends on what alternatives you have. Where I Iive independent garages want £70. So about £30 is a no brainer.
They shouldn't damage it, they will just put the machine on and let it do it's thing. They might try and flog you tyres or say your tracking is out, but ignore their lies.
I had mine done last summer, and it's still ok. It will need done again next year I think as it's taking a good 5mins to cool air down. Compared to nearly instant cold air when it was nicely topped up.
thanks, i might give my local garage a call and see how much they are gonna charge for, they say they do it for £40 - 45, should i go ahead with the local one or the ats one
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yes I can prove as it only lasted a day so got refund from them
did my 4WD a/c with them a couple of years ago and perfectly good result
true. circulates oil and keeps seals coated. gas escapes through dry seals.
I've read that they're sealed units so there's no way to evaporate out? Also using it all year would be expensive as it burns through fuel
If you don't use the aircon every couple of weeks then the oil in the system doesn't circulate and some of the o-rings can get dry and so leak. So the recommendation is that you at least do that. You only need to run it for a few minutes, and in winter the best way to remember is to turn it on to defrost the windscreen. They are, in theory 'sealed units' as is any pressurised gas system but one with dozens of connections and it's thought they tend to lose about 5-10% of the gas a year. It'll keep working for years with that loss but you'll get less efficient cooling until there's just not enough pressure for the compressor to even run.
Will this potentially get it working again
Yes, it's one reason the compressor won't work, it will stop if the pressure is too low. If the system has slowly been getting warmer then you probably have a leak somewhere. If it's suddenly stopped then you might have a BIG leak or your compressor may have gone or some other bigger problem. You can hear the compressor start on most cars, and see the RPM dip to compensate when the AC clutch kicks in.
This is worth trying. Make sure they do the pressure test first which the terms of this offer include, and if that checks out then you probably don't have a big leak and you can see if it all starts up again once the system is back to pressure. For the price it's definitely worth a go if cool air is important to you. If it fails the pressure test then you have bigger issues, but you may be able to get the money back from Groupon as you haven't actually had the offer - you get 14 days from memory.
It's tests by pulling a vacuum, it would have done the same on any machine as they all test by draining and holding a vacuum for a predetermined amount of time, you had a dry cracked o-ring somewhere, the vacuum was the start of the end as it pulled instead of pushing so you can't really blame them, if it isn't broken and you have it checked then thats is the gamble i'm afraid, you can get a leak stop with dye or have them find the leak but the next time they pull a vacuum it may do another one.
You get to find out for £28.95, less than the minimum labour charge at most garages, it may need a recharge as it has a pressure switch to disable the system if the gas level is low or it could be more serious.
took about 45 minutes but they didn't charge because once it was recharged my air con clutch wouldn't kick in,
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Wonder why they didn't plug it into the diagnostics to see what the problem was rather than letting you go for nothing!
Diagnostics would have cost them nothing?
Up to yourself pal, it's only a machine which drains the system, dries then refills the system in a nutshell. Even the Ats monkeys can't mess that up........
Each time you get it refilled there is a risk of an old seal giving up and leaking. As people say if you use your air con lots like it says in your handbook there's less risk of this happening. In fact quite a few recommend it on permantly as it's hardy any extra mpg to run it. From memory I think it's equivalent to roughly 4 miles per full tank.
For me personally Id go Ats as the garages where I live are right rip off merchants anyway.
Sounds like the motor that drives your internal fan is gone. Have it checked out.
I use my aircon every day and have for the past 8 years and it is still blowing cold air. I have never switched it off and it's been fine. I have a Renault scenic.