The Panda Nut
Nutty about Pandas Infected by Panda virus and OPD
Yes my experience is the same. They are the ultimate in unprofessional. I haven't read the regs so I suspect they can carry out refills in the manner described without falling foul, but its going to have a much lower success rate than doing the job properly and, if there are any leaks its a waste of money. My local garage man is aircon trained and has the right equipment and waste licences. His charges are reasonable too. I cant repeat what he has to say about what Halfords approach is!Halfords
£40 is a fairn price to refill, but my experience of Fiats is the sysyems dont leak down, so loss of performance is likely to be a leak.
My local man used a leak stopper additive on my mothers car. He said he'd never tried it before but the alterntive was removing the entire dash to replace an O ring. It worked and we never had another problem, so on very minor leaks from seals its a possible cure. Fiat Panda Mk3s seem to suffer corrosion and disintegration of the condenser. May be there was a bad batch used at some point in production. Ours is a 2011 one. When changed is wa like a rotten string vest. It wasnt actually leaking but why, must be the 8th wonder of the world.
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