Seeing as he doesnt know that much about AC and that how his car is about 10 years old...I'm sure it still contains the factory R-12 style refigerant....In order for you to add R-134 to your car you need to flush the whole system out of the R-12 system...That means u need to depressurize it and take out the R-12 oil....So dont just go putting in some R134 unless your Certain yours has been converted to R134 already...Originally posted by Rice4Brains
well...sure you can do it yourself. go to your local auto parts store (autozone type r) and pic up a can of r-134, and a hose with a gauge, cuz youll wanna know what kinda pressure you got in there. there should be two hoses right next to your radiator, each with a little blue cap on them, one should say H, and the other should be marked L. unscrew the L cap and hook it all up, thats where you would be adding your r-134 into.
Mine has R-12...Since i bought my car 2 years ago i didnt feel to get it serviced so it'll stay like that till i get the time to come around and fix it...my neighbor is a AC man so i dont have a problem getting it doneOriginally posted by Rice4Brains
5th gen civics have r-134
if you wanna make sure, there should be a sticker somewhere either on the bottom side of your hood or on the front frame of the engine bay. it should tell you what kind of freon you have and how much your car should have in it