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Originally Posted by Zulu95
Having read this report many times and experienced it once you have cured the symptom of low refrigerant but not the reason as to why it is/was low. Try sniffing around your high and low service ports. Our '01 needed the port seals done 10 years ago. The kit supplied by the dealer was reasonable and updated the valves to the common type found in most modern systems that can have the "O" rings replaced as and when required. If it is not a service port problem then it could get expensive in a hurry.
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Thanks Zulu - good point and I forgot to say that I have indeed replaced the service ports already, fearing that they could be the source of the leak. As you point out, it's a cheap insurance measure when troubleshooting, so I just went ahead and replaced them. I can place the sniffer in the ports to check, the problem yesterday was that I had just recharged the system so there was refrigerant present within the port which the sniffer was excited about. I get no indication around the outside and base of the ports, though. I will try inside the ports again today, maybe with enough time the refrigerant dissipates at the port entry. For the record, I changed the entire port and not just the schrader valves.
You are correct, though, recharging is just a stop-gap and not solving the problem. I'd like to find the source of the leak and also resolve why the driver's side blows cold but the passenger side blows warm.
Thanks!