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Originally Posted by ard (Post 948098)

I dont know what the system capacity is, but that seems like quite a bit. For reference the 2001 X5 has a total freon capacity of 16.0 Oz. (Which is one pound)

IMO, surely there is a leak.

if the SA is nice he will document 'there is a leak, but we cannot find it- drive the car for XX months are monitor performance'. That way it will be covered in the future.

A

Good point on having that documented.

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Originally Posted by balx5 (Post 946882)

Having the same issue where passenger side blowing warmer than the drivers side on both front the rear. Will bring the vehicle into CPO service, should it be standard practice for them to run a dye diagnostic or will they just refill freon and put me on my way. If there is a leak I want them to fix it before my CPO is out.

My freon was completely out 2 months ago. I brought it to the dealer and was told they needed to refill freon with dye, it will cost me $290 if nothing is leaking. I had the independent mechanic refilled the freon with dye at the time. Two weeks ago i brought it to the dealer for some other service, i mentioned that i an issue with my a/c. They were able to detected the leak from evaporator and replaced it under cpo.