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Originally Posted by phantoms
The sale or possession of R-12 produced after a certain date is against the law in the US, however it is still made and sold in other countries. Hence the high price.
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That's not exactly true-what IS illegal is the manufacture of R-12 (and any other CFC/chloroflurocarbon based refrigerant)-sale of "factory purified" recovered/reprocessed refrigerant is perfectly legal(at vastly inflated prices of course
). I personally know of US vehicles running MP39 as a drop-in replacement; of course, as a refrigeration tech I've got plenty of R12 lying around(bought a bunch before the price gouging got really bad). Good luck(and be sure to fix all those little leaks!!!
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