Recent content by M104

I am so happy. One of my car's AC is fixed! Had trouble sleeping with the heat wave we're having in western France and decided I could at least try to figure out what's bad with the Peugeot's AC. Being built 30 years ago I always thought everything in the system would be leaking but to my...

What's frustrating is that I would never buy a car without a working AC yet it absolutely always fails in the following weeks or months. Everytime I say to myself "this time it will keep working". I guess I am cursed with failing ACs and tire vibration issues. I was talking about that with...

The only refrigerant I can buy is R12A and i have to order it online. I think the leak is bad enough that I can't get it charged at all.

I will try to find someone competent enough to find the leak in the Mercedes. To be honest, If it turns out the evaporator is leaking or no one is able to make it work I might rip the whole AC system off the car despite being my main car and enjoy the added room in the engine bay and less...

I always wondered if it's necessarily a good thing or not. Maybe those parts were sold as TRW because they didn't pass BMW's QC? Just a theory I had with a friend. I've heard about SKF flex discs with scratched a Mercedes logo being sometimes slightly out of balance.

In my case it was the passenger side hydraulic mount and the car was a 1997 C250 Turbodiesel manual.

I am digging this subject a bit and it looks like something i wouldn't want in my car. Google "Tragedia de La Cresta".

If i knew what R12A was before i would have ordered a few cans but it's too late. Maybe the leak is substantial anyway and i couldn't keep the system charged for more than a day.

It's in my top 5 riffs of all time! Unfortunately Ratt never played here. Warren DeMartini is my one of my favorite from that era with George Lynch.

It is true that with this climate I tend to forget about it as it is not needed from September to June. Summers have been brutal lately and I miss it a little more every year.

I think it really depends on cloth vs leather seats and dark color cars are worse. I was watching weather forecast and it will be as high as 30-35c for most of the trip (up to 95f?).

I must say that i like to park with the tow hitch installed because it keeps idiots from destroying my rear bumper a little bit more every time i have to park in a city street. That being said, i try not to park behind one or not near other cars at all.

I was thrilled that for the fist time in my 13 years of driving I would have a working AC when i bought my car. Owner had the system refilled a few years back and I bought the car in September of 2024 but didn't really need to turn it on. Sure enough, when I needed it during summer of 2025 it...