CoolCar Air Conditioning Centres Introduce Tools of the Trade
By Tristan Hooker/MediaPA
Every good workman needs a good set of tools and air conditioning specialists are no exception.
CoolCar Air-Conditioning Centres are the experts in diagnosis and repair of air conditioning and heating systems in every type of vehicle, like cars, including classic cars, agricultural vehicles, tractors, buses, aircraft and heavy equipment.
Here are four tools – and four good reasons – to take your vehicle to the team at your nearest CoolCar Air-Conditioning Centre:
Our trained and experienced technicians
Catherine Tocker, of CoolCar Air-Conditioning Centres, says a trained and experienced technician will know what they’re looking for during a vehicle inspection. If a system presents with low refrigerant, a good tech will be looking for the site of the loss. Oil and debris can be a sign of the whereabouts of the leak and simple performance tests can help identify why your system isn’t working properly because low refrigerant isn’t always the problem. That in itself is an important reason to bring your car’s air conditioning problems to the professionals as a lot of people can only sell you a re-gas because that is where their expertise ends. Catherine Tocker says their business in Hamilton diagnoses over 700 vehicles in a summer season and that gives them a lot of experience in what they do.
Electronic leak detection
Sensitive electronic leak detectors detect refrigerant leaks down to 7g/annum. The presence of refrigerant completes an electrical circuit and sounds an alert. Used to detect leaks smaller than those that present a visible leak it is far more sensitive than a nitrogen or refrigerant pressure drop test (ie looking or listening, with naked ears for a pressure drop). A failure to use leak detection of this type of sensitivity means significant leaks are missed. But, not all leaks can be found by this method.
Loktrace leak detection technology
This German made hydrogen-nitrogen leak detector uses dual sensor technology to detect leaks and is more sensitive than leak detection using refrigerant. In the hands of the skilled professionals at CoolCar, this is a valuable tool to detect leaks that are small and/or hard to access and is currently available at CoolCar Hamilton and North Shore. These centres are ready for leak detection in new style HFO1234yf systems with this technology.
Refrigerant identifier
With the practice of re-gassing leaking air conditioning systems with contaminated refrigerant now rife in New Zealand, being able to identify the composition of the refrigerant in a system is vital. It helps with diagnosis of unusual system performance, and prevents us contaminating our refrigerant with chemicals that have no place in automotive systems like R22, propane and iso-butane, air and other unidentified components which we see following re-gassing by some.
In New Zealand it is an offence to release refrigerant into the atmosphere when that release is preventable (Climate Change Response Act 2002 and Ozone Protection Act 1996) so Cool Car Air-Conditioning Centres take this regulation very seriously.
Cool Car Air-Conditioning Centres have six stores throughout Auckland and the Waikato, with mobile specialists in their Manuakau and Hamilton stores.
Contact CoolCar Air-Conditioning Centres Ltd:
399 Te Rapa Road, Te Rapa, Hamilton, 3200
PO Box 27145, Garnett Ave, Hamilton, 3257
Phone: 0508 266 5227
E-Mail: cath@coolcar.co.nz
Web: www.coolcar.co.nz
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