Air Con Leak Under Drivers Side Bumper

[andy-cad]

Hi,

Wonder if anyone has experience of this. Air con was not working so went to get it re-gassed (i live in stockton-on-tees and use VOLKSRANGE in thornaby Jason is great)Jason re-gassed it, but it immiediately expelled gas like a blown radiator from under the drivers side bumper. We took the pipe off as we thought the pipe had ruptured. There was onlt a very small scratch where we thought there may be a crack so i had a mate tig it up. Put it back on same again. any ideas? anyone know where i can get the air con spares for a 2000 TDI ghia?

Edited July 6, 2010 by andy-cad

[Bigjeeze]

Hi,

Wonder if anyone has experience of this. Air con was not working so went to get it re-gassed (i live in stockton-on-tees and use VOLKSRANGE in thornaby Jason is great)Jason re-gassed it, but it immiediately expelled gas like a blown radiator from under the drivers side bumper. We took the pipe off as we thought the pipe had ruptured. There was onlt a very small scratch where we thought there may be a crack so i had a mate tig it up. Put it back on same again. any ideas? anyone know where i can get the air con spares for a 2000 TDI ghia?

 

Andy

 

I am assuming this is a Mark 1? If it is it may well be the Receiver Dryer which is mounted insdide the wheel arch. I had that on my wife's MK1 - it cost around

[Bigjeeze]

Hi,

Wonder if anyone has experience of this. Air con was not working so went to get it re-gassed (i live in stockton-on-tees and use VOLKSRANGE in thornaby Jason is great)Jason re-gassed it, but it immiediately expelled gas like a blown radiator from under the drivers side bumper. We took the pipe off as we thought the pipe had ruptured. There was onlt a very small scratch where we thought there may be a crack so i had a mate tig it up. Put it back on same again. any ideas? anyone know where i can get the air con spares for a 2000 TDI ghia?

 

Andy

 

I am assuming this is a Mark 1? If it is it may well be the Receiver Dryer which is mounted insdide the wheel arch. I had that on my wife's MK1 - it cost around

[Babelman]

Have the same was is the dryer/receiver?

[sparky Paul]

Favourite failure point on the mark 1 is at the front of the o/s wheelarch, where the aircon pipe crosses the chassis leg and emerges through the hole cut in the undertray, heading towards the receiver/dryer.

 

The pipe is aluminium, the chassis is steel, and the muck that collects between the two causes rapid galvanic corrosion of the aluminium pipe. What looks like dirt, or dots on the pipe are often multiple perforations.