I had an O-Ring go bad on my A/C Condenser and I still had the old Freon in there so I just changed the O-Ring and did a retro kit for the new stuff and the problem has began.

It blows cool and will eventually get cold on a long drive but will not blow cold just driving around town. After changing the O-Ring I paid the place next door to my job to pull a vaccuum on it and they said it pulled and held a vaccuum fine. So I put on the retro fit couplers and started it up to add freon. The tag on the car shows it holds 30oz of freon but I was only able to put in 15oz (of oil and freon, a premix can). And the guage now shows it to be overcharged a bit.

But it does blow pretty cool, and gets cold on a long 10 mile or longer drive.

Any ideas? Please help because it's darn hot and I'm broke of course!

 

my 92 does that with the original r12.. cool, never cold, has taken 'forever' ie 10 miles to cool since i bought it new.. cools faster if i put the fan setting in the middle not full blown..open up all the doors and then turn it on to get the heat out..leaving the windows cracked alittle does nothing to advance the heat out of the car.. i have a dark car and those windows are like a green house.. the molecule for r134 is larger and it works differently from the r12 doesnt cool as well.. if its truly overcharged it wont cool very well.. the compressor will go on and off constantly..

 

i have a 95 accord and i have the same problem i've not try tied to do much about it just freon it thats all.. but it's like a freaking maignet for hot air, it takes about 10 miles of me driving constantly for it to actually get cold. also i dunno if you have this problem too but i have a 5spd and when it put it in neutral at a light or something it will drop down way past 1k rpm's and about shut off then goes back up to a lil under 1...

 

I fixed it today. Get this, the brand new set of guages that I purchased to check this with was bad. It was reading extremely high. I just had to add another 9oz of freon and it now blows at 43degrees constantly.

Thanks for the reply messages guys!

Jg

 

fantastic!

 

you need to clean out your IAC valve, its very easy to do, just get a haynes manual or something to locate it and then spray car cleaner on the mesh to rid it of deposits and your car will idle fine

as far as the a/c not getting cold enough, try taking it down to garage and have them check your heater valve, sometimes those get stuck slightly open and allow warm air to mix with your cold air