PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum - View Single Post - R-12 costs

Lance Allison · #12 07-12-2004, 10:21 PM

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Originally posted by rickg
Just wondering, what's the going rate to upgrade to R134(or whatever the new stuff is called)? My SD has already been upgraded, but my 'ol Audi hasn't, and it doesn't work. If I'm gonna spend several hundred to get it working, figured I might as well upgrade, if it's not too much more. Figure in the long run it's worth it. I'm sure R12 is just going to keep getting more exspensive, and probably harder to get.

Actually, R12 has come down in price several fold in the past 3 years. It was as high as $48 per can locally, last year it was about $30/can and just last weekend was $16 per can.

I'm not so sure about calling an R12 to R134a an "upgrade". In my experience so far, the cooling properties of systems originally designed for R12 work best with R12. Yes, 134a will work okay for most people...