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Originally Posted by EricSilver
Same engine, different car:
Recently recharged with R134a and in 90-degree weather can set the ACC wheel to 65, and within 10 minutes the blowers spins down to near-nothing and the temp is effortlessly maintained.
I don't understand the aversion to R134, unless some efficiency is lost when doing the conversion from R12??
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Your car was designed to work on 134. The components designed to work with the higher pressure coolant. The R12 cars switched to 134 are still R12 cars in which the 134 does not adequately cool.
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