Nissan Note - Air Con Issue

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Tue 17 May 2022 18:27
Nissan Note - Air Con Issue - crowncd

Our Nissan Note is 13 years old and we've noticed this year that the air con is no longer working. The air con has never been re-gassed.

I'm concerned that if we have it re-gassed that may not work as there could be a fault or leak in the air con system. This happened to us once with a Citroen which lost the gas overnight.

Is there any way of telling if the air con system is ok and a re-gas will work?

Many thanks.

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Tue 17 May 2022 19:14
Nissan Note - Air Con Issue - elekie&a/c doctor
All cars lose their gas over a period of time . I would suggest get the system pressure tested and see what happens. It could give another few years of use . My 20 year old focus needs doing every 3 years . Not worth spending loads of cash to get it fixed .
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Wed 18 May 2022 12:54
Nissan Note - Air Con Issue - Crickleymal

There's no easy way for a home mechanic to check the AC. You could buy a top up aerosol and try that but tbh they're quite expensive and it's not much more money to take it to a garage and have them regas it and check for leaks. Should be around £60 or at least it was last year.

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Wed 18 May 2022 14:59
Nissan Note - Air Con Issue - edlithgow

Pardon my naivety, but can't you just put a pressure gauge on it?

No pressure = empty stylee?

Purpose-made gauge sets seem to cost about 20-25 quid equivalent in the Kaohsiung reasonably good tool shop.

Unfortunately I doubt there will be DIY-friendly sources of recharge gas available here, since there is no DIY.

For leak testing, pardon my naivety again, but can't you just put air in it?

pressure is pressure, and air is cheap.

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Wed 18 May 2022 15:35
Nissan Note - Air Con Issue - Andrew-T

No pressure = empty stylee?

Ed, I am a bit worried that you may have gone native. Some time ago I tumbled to your use of the word Yook, meaning the UK. Recently 'stylee' seems to have taken its place, and I am looking for an accurate translation. Can you help ? :-)

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Wed 18 May 2022 18:49
Nissan Note - Air Con Issue - paul 1963

No pressure = empty stylee?

Ed, I am a bit worried that you may have gone native. Some time ago I tumbled to your use of the word Yook, meaning the UK. Recently 'stylee' seems to have taken its place, and I am looking for an accurate translation. Can you help ? :-)

Andrew, not sure there is a accurate translation, think Ed just adds the word randomly, I actually enjoy his style of posting even though he is clearly very eccentric ( love eccentrics btw).

As a aside I did once manage to right royaly p@@s him off by calling him Edith, for ages I read his user name as Edith Gow??!!! :)

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Thu 19 May 2022 09:41
Nissan Note - Air Con Issue - Andrew-T

<< I did once manage to right royally p@@s him off by calling him Edith, for ages I read his user name as Edith Gow??!!! :) >>

Paul, I remember it well .... :-)

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Wed 18 May 2022 22:43
Nissan Note - Air Con Issue - edlithgow

Vaguely think "stylee" was a hip semi-Americanism/netspeak sometime in the mid-80's, timewarp stylee, but it might alternatively have come out of Brixton a bit later, rub-a-dub stylee.

Dunno really. Looking it up

www.lexico.com/definition/stylee

gives "

Origin

1980s; earliest use found in New Musical Express. Apparently an arbitrary alteration of style."

en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stylee

"

Etymology[edit]

A form of style in Jamaican patois." tending to confirm my Brixton impression (I lived in London when I did bank networks) and probably where the NME got it.

So not "native" as such, though undoubtedly hip, long ago and far away.

Natives here do put "ee" on the end of English words, as in

"I can to find many mechanical knowledgees on mya***.com"

I made that up, as a speculation on the cut-and-paste origins of the content of the Taiwan Govt Mechanical Knowledge test, which I once sat by accident.

If you have any mechanical knowledge at all, I recommend it for a good laugh, lak a drain stylee.

(Mya***.com is a euphemism for Quora, which tends to be a Compendium of Cobblers/Boys Bumper Book of B******s)

Edited by edlithgow on 18/05/2022 at 23:17

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Thu 19 May 2022 10:39
Nissan Note - Air Con Issue - Bolt

Our Nissan Note is 13 years old and we've noticed this year that the air con is no longer working. The air con has never been re-gassed.

I'm concerned that if we have it re-gassed that may not work as there could be a fault or leak in the air con system. This happened to us once with a Citroen which lost the gas overnight.

Is there any way of telling if the air con system is ok and a re-gas will work?

Many thanks.

Halfords around London (no idea if there is one near you) do a diagnostic on aircon for £35 and let you know price of repair if needed and if its possible to top up/regas which they do for £50, doesn't take long to do and they can do at your house if you want them to depending where you are

I had mine checked as it isn`t working but nothing unusual for a Honda that has not been used for years

HTH

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Thu 19 May 2022 12:23
Nissan Note - Air Con Issue - Gibbo_Wirral

Any decent garage will do a pressure test first before risking damaging the environment by putting dangerous gas into a leaking system.

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