t&c ' s

9. Air Conditioning Recharge and Anti-Bacterial Clean takes approximately 1 hour. A pressure test will be carried out prior to the Air-conditioning Recharge being carried out. If a leak in the air conditioning system is detected the recharge will not proceed and the customer will be advised to get the system repaired. In such a circumstance the cost of the air conditioning recharge will be refunded.

"Looks like you need some brake pads and shoes, mate. We can fit those for you... mate"

thanks ,

I see they refund if a leak is found , good news if you buy a car and the a/c isn't working.
sellers will always say ' just wants a re-gas mate '

Great deal thanks, anyone wanting the anti-bac cleaner Euro Car Parts £4.13 delivered with code: egg56, product code NOR2897300100. Works a treat and easy to use.

Good post, i got this in an email too

"Anti bacterial treatment is not included and will be charged for separately at a discounted price of £10 (normally £20) when combined with the purchase of an air conditioning recharge (Total combined price of £38.79)."

still good value, after last weeks lovely heat feel I might need ac this summer.

Good call. I was just musing today about how mine can do with a refill.

"*Our air conditioning regas service is for vehicles using R134A refrigerant only. We do not currently provide a regas service for vehicles using R1234YF refrigerant. Please check your vehicle handbook to identify which air conditioning refrigerant your vehicle requires." I best dig out the handbook

thanks ,

I see they refund if a leak is found , good news if you buy a car and the a/c isn't working.
sellers will always say ' just wants a re-gas mate '

Good price if you know there are no leaks in your system. (Not sure if this service includes a leak check or not). If you think you have a leak, it needs to be checked prior to a recharge, or this may prove to be a waste of money.

Voted hot.

t&c ' s

9. Air Conditioning Recharge and Anti-Bacterial Clean takes approximately 1 hour. A pressure test will be carried out prior to the Air-conditioning Recharge being carried out. If a leak in the air conditioning system is detected the recharge will not proceed and the customer will be advised to get the system repaired. In such a circumstance the cost of the air conditioning recharge will be refunded.

If the pressure test shows a leak then they would surely not proceed & hence no refund due as the payment should not have been made beforehand. A surefire way of getting your car AC system checked over before spending wasted money.

Good price though.

I didn't realise this was a good price for AC recharge, all my local garages do it for £30 all year round

Groupon had it for this price WITH anti back not long ago at ATS... probably be back soon.

nice one booked in ty

Voted HOT so I can be COOL! :sunglasses:

​​if you buy just the discounted recharge online, you can just go into store and ask for the anti bac at the time for the discounted price. the code given on the website doesn't work for the combined for some reason despite saying above that it does.

so whats the total £38 or £48? not OP £28.

This is not a bad price (often this can be £50, or £80 at a main dealer) but it is always worth checking. I was going to use ATS but have just found that a local garage (Central Autopoint here in Corby - 01536 261 619) has a deal for only £25 at the moment - so I've booked it in there.

Good price and service. Ats workington have always done a good job no problems and no found extras. I did get it cheaper though with Groupon last year maybe worth waiting for it to drop further. I like the idea of buying own antibacterial aerosol from europarts cheap and with a good discount as aircon can get a bit stinky. Hot (or cool) from me

"Looks like you need some brake pads and shoes, mate. We can fit those for you... mate"

And come out with 4 new tyres and brakes all round :wink:

Took mind there last year after this deal and surprise surprise put it on the other day and it's completely kaput. Old car so not that bothered but I honestly couldn't recommend them as I'm sure they messed it up

If you only put it on other day that's your problem, you are meant to use it all year round

cold. hidden charges.

How?

Regas is 28.79

If you want extras then you need to pay extra
Tittle states clearly regas not regas and santising/treatment

Nobody mentioned 5% Quidco?

does anyone know if my peugeot 207 2009 is eligible? my handbook doesnt mention anything about regas or refrigerant. thank you

Just booked, £28.79 indeed!

I've noticed that whenever I use the air con in my car, when I go back to using the normal air, it doesnt smell too good, very pungent. Could I do with a recharge or is that something else?

Yep, it's like that when I use the cold air. Hot air after a while normally gets rid of it

What you mean "ran out" only reason it would stop working is a leak. The gas is not a consumable

"Vehicles with R1234YF refrigerant gas are excluded from this offer"
One guess what gas is in my car! :disappointed:

Try a new pollen Filter?

Cheers will give that a go

whoever has had it done let us know if the extra charge for the anti-bac clean was optional. id be interested to get this for £28.79 confirmed.

Bit of exaggeration 2017 not exactly donkey's years , your thinking of R12 refrigerant
http://www.ac4cars.co.uk/r1234yf.html

If car needs R1234YF would think still be under new car warranty

Great deal thanks, anyone wanting the anti-bac cleaner Euro Car Parts £4.13 delivered with code: egg56, product code NOR2897300100. Works a treat and easy to use.

should have listed it as a deal, this ones now 413 hot!

good price (y)

booked online only £28.79 payed with paypal so you dont have to have anti bac clean

AC gas is a closed system. If it doesn't work you have a leak. A regas will solve nothing, just pump gas into the atmosphere.

Do they perform the full process whereby they suck the moisture out first then refill it with refrigerant?

They will connect your a/c system up to a machine which does all the work. Included sucking out old gas first before replacing with new.

I paid just over sixteen pounds for my refill last week. Used Groupon for the first time so used the discount code. This was in Coventry, but they (Concorde) have branches in :
Northampton
Coventry
Cambridge
Leicester
Wisbech
Norwich
Peterborough

Order summary:
View Order Status
Description Quantity Price

Concorde Autocentre - Coventry — Air-conditioning service and re-gas 1 £19.00
Subtotal: £19.00
Discount: -£2.85
Total: £16.15

Gas refrigerant normally removed for re use then then pull as close to vacuum as possible (this is leak test as well ) then refill with correct amount of refrigerant inc lubricant . At least thats how we did it many year's ago when did lorry fridges and the odd aircon with thermo king in bad old days of R12 refrigerant

Heat OP! But pretty sure my local ATS is doing this for £19.99...

My Mum told me about it, had hers done last week and I'm booked in for this Friday :stuck_out_tongue:

ATS = Automotive Thieving Shysters

Even if it costs you more money, go elsewhere. It will save you a small fortune in the long run.

Ah, maybe. That's OK then.

I'm debating, mines eight years old and never done anything to it, you are supposed to recharge once per period of some description.

If working OK leave alone in theory should never need recharge .After all its just a fridge you never get that recharged
if woking ok .But car aircon more prone to leaks so sometimes lose bit of refrigerant
Just have evaporator (bit inside heater) anti bacteria cleaned as they can tend to smell

Many people think their a/c is just for hot summer days. It's great in winter for keeping windows clear and it should be run regularly to keep the oil cirulating and the seals working. If you have auto climate control (just set the temp) it's probably doing this for you already but do check how you've set it.

Problem with these 'bargain' top ups is that you should really evacuate the whole system and recharge with the correct amount of oil and refrigerant. If they just 'top up' the refrigerant you probably won't have the specified amount in there so performance and reliability could be adversely affected.

Had it done by ATS last year when they had this offer. IIRC they do suck the old stuff out first and the anti bac is optional. BTW most cars have a big sticker under the bonnet saying what type of refrigerant it takes.

I could not disagree more. I get my tyres from ATS in Kettering , they are always a keen price and the service is very good indeed.

This is a good deal - another option is to do it yourself, the one from Halfords use to cost from memory £20 + £10 odd quid for the trigger, I remember doing about 3 cars with that, £10 refund for the bottle. Its now shockingly £40 for the gas alone so this is a great deal. I remember many years ago I went for a regas and minutes after it started leaking, it was fine before - so I ended up with a Luxury motor with no air con, over pressurised the system I think. Over the last 15 years always done it myself with these low pressure diy cans and never had a problem and the last can had an additive to clean bacteria, and it actually worked, got rid of that post air con smell. est the bay has a cheap, decent kit for top ups.

I wouldnt mind paying for a full extraction and regas/additives.

thanks for the heads up, just ordered.

may help you finding out what gas your car takes.

http://ictworkshopsolutions.com/ict2014/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Complete-Refrigerant-Filling-Chart.pdf

Why is it illegal for anyone to do it themselves...

Different places will be different, it all depends on the people working there. In ATS Morley I went in for an AC recharge and 2 tyres fitted. I enquired whether new valves and balancing is included in the price and they said yes. I told them, one of the wheels has a TPMS, that needs replacing with a standard valve. Mid way through, got brought over and was told they might have to replace the locking wheel bolts. What should have taken around an hour took 2.5 instead. Finally ready, they had replaced the locking wheel bolts without consulting on cost, but I was tired, I paid up and left.

Got home, realised I wasn't given an invoice, the valves weren't changed, the AC pipe valve caps were left on the strut and crushed by the bonnet (I replaced these a few weeks prior).
Went back to complain about the valves and invoice. The manager told me the valves weren't changed because I wasn't charged for it to which I replied, it's impossible for me to tell if I wasn't given an invoice. He printed an invoice off, it was a right state.
I pointed out the obvious errors and extra charges such as tyre disposal (meant to be included all inclusively) but only for one tyre when I had 2 changed etc etc. I was annoyed at having to return for what should have been a simple issue and voiced my concerns for safety and my time wasted for this. I just got told by the manager "You don't have to come back here then". At which point I told him to expect a demand for a refund made in that case.

Fast forward, ATS headquarters approved a £50 refund.... Now I am thinking I should be refunded the whole amount... my AC system was never adequately pressure tested because a week later, I have no AC again!

Cool deal

Took my car here last year for air con re-gas. They supposedly check for leaks beforehand, but my aircon stopped working a week after it was refilled. Took it back to which they stated we can only do a simple pressure check and see if the pressure drops on the machine and this is done for a matter of minutes, we cannot do a sophisticated check as we dont have the equipment. What a con.

No system is a perfect seal, it's perfectly normal for an AC system to lose a bit of gas over time and a regas is a completely normal bit of maintenance to do every so often. If the system has a leak, it wouldn't be filled again as it would fail the pressure test.

17 pounds in fareham near to me

Same product with same product code for £3.88 on Carparts4less using code easter17

heat added thanks for the info, I will be able to drive round feeling cool in my chrysler voyager grand.

Is there any way to tell if the air con needs regassing apart from it being not ice-cold?

When a regas deal was on here before and comments about leak tests, apparently they don't pressurise the system which would show up leaks; they evacuate (vacuum) which can cause leaks to close/seal and not be detected.

Glad you're all loving the deal, I'm going down tomorrow to have mine done. Fingers crossed my branch is a good
one.

they found a leak in mine this morning :disappointed: anyone know how to go about getting a refund? they wouldnt do in store as booked online

The anti-bacteria is a separate thing, not an additive - the coolant never gets outside the pipes unless you have a leak!

I had one of these 'recharges' done at Quikfit - My Aircon has never been right since! It's now noisier and doesn't go as cold as it previously did...

Just had this done today. No extras added on

Just to confirm, The ATS Branch in Farnham? Cheers.

Are you meant to have it recharged?

I always gone on the thing that if it ain't broke don't fix it.

Hello!

I got this done today at Dartford. The Manager said the Anti-Bacterial is done as part of the AC Recharge.
All I know is that it was done and Its nice and cool again. No leaks too. Glad they checked as my car is a CAT D car anyway. So was worried it may have damage!

134a was only pushed out because Europe wanted lower gwp in people's car refrigerant systems.
Neither 134a or 1234yf are 'gases' they are refrigerants.
A leak has to be rather massive for the tiny vacuum they pull on these machines to be noticed.
A car ac system on 134a can run upto 17 bar from memory ( I don't do much car stuff)
1234yf runs much higher pressures.
If a system stops operating due to lack of refrigerant it must have a leak.
its against the law to recharge a leaky refrigeration system without finding the leak. TBH I don't know how they are still getting away with this TBH.
Side note, your fridge at home doesn't need charging because no one **** with it, your car should be the same...

First time poster, steve.

Thank you for that, it is good to have someone knowledgable aboard. Most of us are just guessing with specialised areas like this - we either wait for things to break (in this case get a refridgerant leak) or heed the manufacturers' warnings that things need servicing frequently. I fall into the second caragory and have booked my 3 year old car in for an a/c service at a local garage on Tuesday. It sounds (from what you say) that the car doesn't need it (it operates fine) and may even be better left alone.
Many thanks for your input.
Alan

Did 413 replace 134?

Bought a recharge for around 25 quid via Gumtree a year or so ago. Called to book - sorry we don't do refills here. Called all stores within about 60 miles, nope, sorry we don't do refills here. Absolute ****, would rather give my money to Kwik Fit and that's saying something!

managers special at ATS Boston, lincs £19.99 air-con top up till end of April.

Had it done at Didcot ATS yesterday. Great service. Good value for money not just a top up but empty and refill.

Air con never requires regas if it is sealed system. only when there is or was a leak (repaired). I have accord for last 9 years and didn't have to regas that at all.
If someone says regas neded = air con faulty (leaking).

That was a good document, thank you.

I knocked the private seller I bought my BMW off, down £2k, for exactly that reason.

Turns out.... It only needed a regas! Has held pressure for 3 years

in FAREHAM bvs mechanics

thanks - just booked this - my car hasn't had its aircon working for a while so i suspect its a leak - but at least this way I will find out once and for all !!

don't forget quidco as well.

Local Kwik Fit price-matched so went there are long wait to book In with local ATS

An air con?

Good Price , but your better of calling a mobile Aircon mechanic to your premises if possible,
for approx the same price they will top up of AC, run checks on your Compressor and Condenser and check for leaks and have the knowledge and skills to repair any A/C fault . Whereas these ATS/Kwik Fit and in some extent dealers do not have the speciliast skills to do this as i learnt. Also it is illegal to top up AC on a car with a fault.

Mine only lasted 2 weeks after being re gassed so they didn't do a pressure test and they won't give you a refund either.

Can someone please provide a link to where the t&c's state you will be refunded if a leak is found. Thanks

Surely you're thinking of Thick Twit

Thanks

Just had mine done at ATS Leyland...great service...regas and antibacterial for £38...

I got mine done with moo problems. I actually booked mine for the wrong date and got great service from the Bournemouth Kinson branch who managed to fit me in on a busy bank holiday weekend.

I must have a small leak in my system as i only regassed it last year. I didn't want them to find any leaks as I'm not planning on owning the car for long, so i don't want to pay to repair it, luckily they didn't discover
anything

Cool deal

I got this too when I bought my last car, the more I used it the more it faded, still a slight whiff.

shame i have some holes in mine AC :/ need to fix it first as Kwik fit fill my AC twice for 50£ and its empy...

don't trust them - recharged mine and a week later it was useless again. So there was a leak and they didnt tell me about it.

I thought the going rate was £30

Behave, you're not 'meant' to use it any time other than you want to. Numpty

Need to get mine done presumed leak.

My local garage put a dye through to chase leaks.

I don't suppose ATS has this facility.

Will they do my 10 tonne refrigerated truck for @28.79 too???

Thanks, good find. just ordered one.

Had mine done yesterday, they did state they do a leak check first, took about 40 minutes, was not blowing any cold air before, after regas freezing cold, time will tell.

Had this done yesterday, nice bunch of lads too. No hard sell on any other products, no new tyres needed :wink:

Same with me, no selling at all.

Alright lads.. first ones free.. when you want some more come back to me... :wink:

They might do...not for £28 though.

Good price but check groupon, I paid £12.49 (£22.49 minus a £10 groupon voucher) for a re-charge with ATS which also included the bacterial clean. I've seen the offer on groupon a few times, prices changes by a few ££ each time but if you're not in a rush it's worth checking.

My last air con recharge was July 2013 (halfords). Used this code today and the ATS (Bradford) guys said they had not seen this code before. They did the recharge,no leaks, charged me £28.79, good experience so I will be going to them next week for my sisters car. Thanks to OP.

Cheers, will give them a call.

How you did that, mine cost £20, so total price is almost £50?

Can anyone confirm whether or not this does include the anti-bacterial thing? The offer link specifically mentions that it is extra in the T&Cs...


Incidentally the offer URL also says that the offer runs until 30th April, so not sure where the 31st May deadline on here has come from...

edit: By confirm I guess I'm asking whether or not they got given the anti-bac thing for free by mistake, or whatever, having only paid for the regas per this deal.

Interestingly the T&Cs don't have this paragraph in it anymore. They now specifically say that the discount code does not apply to the anti-bacterial treatment, and that it is chargeable at the full rate of £19.99.

That would be why the discount code doesn't work on it when you add it to your cart...

Just had it done in Bow, was easy and straightforward. Thanks for posting this.