Two QQs

The Mad Rapper · 9 Jul 2010 at 18:02

1. Just put 69 litres of diesel in the car - cost me £89. Fuel is expensive! I can remember the protests as the price approached £1 a litre. Now it's well past that and seems to keep rising.

2. It's 32.5C outside according to my car. My aircon isn't cooling the interior as much as I'd like. A 1 year old car shouldn't need to be re-gassed should it? Where would the best place be to check it for a check?

SoliD · 9 Jul 2010 at 18:06

The Mad Rapper said:
1. Just put 69 litres of diesel in the car - cost me £89. Fuel is expensive! I can remember the protests as the price approached £1 a litre. Now it's well past that and seems to keep rising.

2. It's 32.5C outside according to my car. My aircon isn't cooling the interior as much as I'd like. A 1 year old car shouldn't need to be re-gassed should it? Where would the best place be to check it for a check?

1) Where is the question?

2) If its only a year old, take it back to the manufacturer and say you don't think its working very well, they should be able to do some quick temp tests to see if its blowing as cold as it should be when its on low within the recommended tolerances.

MikeHiow · 9 Jul 2010 at 18:06

My VXR aircon was much much better after a re-gas at under a year, although this could be put on different gas etc. rather than the re-gas its self.

Some places claim to use a solution that is guaranteed to your aircon cooler, but I've no idea whether its any good or not.

The Mad Rapper · 9 Jul 2010 at 18:09

SoliD said:
1) Where is the question?

2) If its only a year old, take it back to the manufacturer and say you don't think its working very well, they should be able to do some quick temp tests to see if its blowing as cold as it should be when its on low within the recommended tolerances.

QQ = Cry emoticon. I'm having a moan. No question for the first, just provoking debate as to whether I am a moaning skinflint or not

InvaderGIR · 9 Jul 2010 at 18:14

Must have paid similar to what I did...62litres for £80...128.99 got to love services...is 114.99 - 118.99 in towns down here.

The Mad Rapper · 9 Jul 2010 at 18:14

It's going in to the VW main dealer I bought it from tomorrow. Not sure if this is something done under warranty, but I can't imagine it'll be terribly expensive if not.

The Mad Rapper · 9 Jul 2010 at 18:18

InvaderGIR said:
Must have paid similar to what I did...62litres for £80...128.99 got to love services...is 114.99 - 118.99 in towns down here.

I avoid filling up on motorways if at all possible. Usually I take the 5p off a litre voucher when I do the shopping at Tesco in High Wycombe. Unfortunately, it doesn't have a petrol station, and the nearest one that does is 10 miles away in Amersham

InvaderGIR · 9 Jul 2010 at 18:20

I got caught out with "I'm sure 1/4 a tank will get me most of the way" then had the orange light about half way on my journey. My own fault for not filling up before I left really.

[TW]Fox · 9 Jul 2010 at 18:21

32.5c? Wow, hasn't topped 19c all day here in dulltastic Devon.

Under 1 year for air con to begin to lose it's power seems very, very poor indeed. What make of car is it it? I'd certainly be complaining to the dealer and would not be prepared to accept a charge for a regass.

My parents old car has never had a regass since we've had it (And I dont think it's had one since new) - more than 5 years (Potentially more than 7) - and still blows ice cold.

Howard · 9 Jul 2010 at 18:28

I think it's more a fact that 32C + sun beating down on car = hard to keep the cabin *that* cold. Depends how cold you want it really though I guess!

nichorob · 9 Jul 2010 at 18:33

If it's under a year it would be going straight back to the dealer. Fuel prices we will just have to grit out teeth and bare.

iaind · 9 Jul 2010 at 19:14

[TW]Fox;16913095 said:
32.5c? Wow, hasn't topped 19c all day here in dulltastic Devon.

Was 27 in newton abbot earlier!

[TW]Fox · 9 Jul 2010 at 19:20

iaind said:
Was 27 in newton abbot earlier!

Interesting, according to the Met Office the hightest temperature this side of Exeter recorded today was Exeter itself at 24c.

I suspect your car was simply mis-reading - I came back to mine the other day when it had been parked in the sun and it reckoned it was 28c until I moved off.

iaind · 9 Jul 2010 at 19:24

It does seem to over read by 1 or 2 degrees, but that was moving. It's been properly scorchio around these parts today, definitely warmer than 19! :cool:

It wad reading 24 when I pulled into my driveway

InvaderGIR · 9 Jul 2010 at 19:25

I find the Met Office talks balls, I can look at thermometers in the garden and the Met Office is wrong.

loltim · 9 Jul 2010 at 19:28

SoliD said:
1) Where is the question?

2) If its only a year old, take it back to the manufacturer and say you don't think its working very well, they should be able to do some quick temp tests to see if its blowing as cold as it should be when its on low within the recommended tolerances.

How many question marks do you count in the OP's post? Two?

[TW]Fox · 9 Jul 2010 at 19:28

InvaderGIR said:
I find the Met Office talks balls, I can look at thermometers in the garden and the Met Office is wrong.

Yea, those super accurate cheapo thermometers for sure

InvaderGIR · 9 Jul 2010 at 19:31

[TW]Fox;16913457 said:
Yea, those super accurate cheapo thermometers for sure

Nah, decent fair expensive ones, they often show the correct temp which can be hilariously different from Met Office ones, or the same. The thing to remember is that Met Office can only read in certain areas...so for me...they can't read as I'm in the middle of nowhere.

SB118 · 9 Jul 2010 at 19:35

Not a fan of the extra few degrees myself.

Could be because some idiot pressure washed the engine bay last weekend and may have filled the cooling fan relays with water, meaning mine now runs at nearly 100c unless i sit with the blowers on hot with the windows open

Schizo · 9 Jul 2010 at 19:35

we have a 51 megane and have never got it re-gased and it still blows really cold even in this heat.