Thanks to everyone for the help.
I guess I have been lucky never having A/C problems until I bought my first new car.
My main complaint about Saturn isn't the car's nickle and dime problems, I suppose. It's the service at the dealer. They have been the worst at Merrilville, IN and Greenwood, IN. When the car was new, I took it into the Merrilville dealer under warranty because the headlamp switch was getting very warm. The service manager (some girl named Kelly, I think) tried to tell me that that was normal. I explained to her that I am an electrical engineer and switches don't get warm unless they're underrated or arcing. She then told me that it was because of where the switch was located on the dash. I told her the switch was on the turn signal and to please bring a service tech out to look at it. He came out and told me he'd change the switch. She actually tried to BS me out of a simple switch! I could go on and on.
The reason I like Toyota so much righ now is that I know so many people that drive them and swear up and down they're the best cars they've ever owned. All of them are repeat buyers. I took the plunge an bought a new Tundra last year and I have no complaints with the truck or with the people in the service dept. I noticed it didn't start immediately twice last winter, didn't think too much about it but called the dealer anyway. They said to bring it in, and they found a TSB problem and changed out the fuel pump (for an intermittant problem they never witnessed, with no questions asked)! I was pleased.
Good luck to everyone out there and thanks again for the help.
-Dave
The guy at NAPA told me about the high side vs low side today. I charged it up, tightened all of the fittings and it works like new!
So long as you didnt use an additive can of 134 with seal sweller or sealant in your system you should be fine for this season... Each time you top off you will eventually introduce to much air into the mix and who knows what the oil level would be.
I used to work on a FLIR system on the A6E bomber in the Navy that used Helium to cool the detectors down to -450°F.
I should have noticed when you used thousands to discribe the fitting sizes that you werent the average DIY'er.
I've never had to charge an A/C
in a car in my 45 years until I bought a new Saturn. I've owned 20 year old cars that had ice cold A/C with no problems. I had a 92 SL before I bought this 2000 LS. I put 242,000 miles on the SL with no problems other that losing a quart of oil every 1000 miles. It had the original clutch, rear brake shoes and timing chains when I got the LS in
2000. I thought I'd get another reliable car.
The LS has had tons of nickle and dime problems since it was brand new. I will never buy another Saturn or GM for that matter. Toyota seems to be the most reliable car for the money!!!
Where's the logic in that?
The L-Series, the 1st model year at that, hardly reflects other GM cars and trucks considering it shared NOTHING with them. I've probably seen EVERY make and model you can think of on the road with less than 3 years use with A/C issues and yes that very much includes Toyotas. If you actually live by the your above logic, eventually you wouldn't buy any car on planet Earth...
A glimps at the wonderful world of toyota:
on and on and on....
