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Right, I can definitely understand that. I think I'm more annoyed they want to charge me $1000 just to diagnose the issue (charge with dye and monitor for a leak).
If not covered, perform the hack like hundreds of others did. Involves clamping the hose going into the truck.
That's what the dealer is saying. They want to charge me $1k to diagnose if there's a leak. What's the hack everyone is talking about?
Do you have an extended warranty? I have one but wonder if that will help me
It involves installing a valve on the heater hose going into the heater core. You basically shut off the heater during the hot months (or almost shut it off). Here’s my hack installed. Hose and clamps from oreilly and a valve from Lowe’s. I don’t use it anymore since I had the TSB done, but it’s still there in case. If this makes your AC cool correctly, you need the TSB done.
I have a question pertaining to the tsb.. my 2019 limited a/c gets cold but not nearly as cold as the wife’s Chrysler Pacifica or my work vehicle but my biggest concern is the air blows very low when cranked up to 7. Versus in the other vehicles when the air is cranked up you can really feel the air moving and in the wife’s car it’s so strong it’s loud.
That's a ridiculous price for diagnosis, but not unheard of to be broken. My brother had a F150, that the air went out at less than 1 year old. The dealer told him they couldn't service it at all, because that was when they first changed to the 1234YZ, (or whatever it is, I can never remember). They didn't have equipment yet, and said it was too expensive to buy. He had to find another dealer. His air went out 3 more times, and the last time it was out of warranty and cost him over $1,000 . He got rid of it and bought a Ram.
When shopping 5 years ago for the Ram the sales person said a customer was trading his truck (believe it was a Ram) in for a new one do to the AC fix, $4000. Local mechanic will only install new AC compressors, no rebuilds as he has had bad experiences with rebuilds.
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Our trucks use R1234yf refrigerant. Not sure there are any tools for that you can purchase to "self-diagnose".
You can refill with dye mixed into the YF. Use a black light flashlight to see where there are leaks. There's an actuator sensor that kicks on when the AC is running but without any pressure, that doesn't turn on. You need to jump the sensor with a paper clip/wire. Someone must know whar plug is the sensor.
They do have an ac pro in this refrigerant. Wasn’t very cheap last time I checked. I still don’t know what was wrong with 134a. It was fine and not as flammable as this one.
I didn't even know there was a r1234yf in the Ac/pro.
Yup! Told ya!
