By Jim Marotta What was once a basic system to heat and cool the interior of a vehicle has become a multi-zone, automatic temperature control system with cabin air filtration. No longer are a few tools and some basic knowledge adequate to diagnose and service modern climate control systems . Without...
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Second in a Series of Occasional Posts on Shop Maintenance Photography and Story by Jim Marotta It's a sweltering August afternoon and an overheated customer comes in saying the A/C isn't working. Earlier this week you convinced him to pay for needed A/C system maintenance . What went wrong?...
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Filed under: Maintenance, filter, dirty filter, recovery and recycling machine, refrigerant recycling, maintenance of refrigerant recovery and recycling machine, maintenance of refrigerant recycler, recycler malfunction, refrigerant recovery, replacing a filter, O-rings