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Subject:    Re: volvo conversion or not
Date:    June 27, 2005 at 20:56:15
Posted by:    jd on via: or 209.214.131.169
In Reply to:    The message posted by Barry on June 27, 2005 at 20:17:00:

I haven't retrofitted a Volvo but a friend did many retrofits. As "candidates" among imports, he rated Honda best and Volvo worst. He felt their condendsers and evaporators were too small to do a good job with R134A.
As a group, RWD cars don't retro as well as FWD either, since they don't have as much airflow over the condenser at idle with their engine-driven fans.
So, just IMHO, I would keep your Volvo on R12 unless I was well committed to living with noticeably reduced a/c performance.
God Bless, jd

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