In this video, learn how to refill your car or truck’s A/C system with refrigerant, specifically R134a, the most common refrigerant. This guide covers the procedure for topping off your system, ...

Temperatures are reaching record highs across the nation. Car air conditioning systems don't always need repairs to function, they may just need a recharge. You can purchase an air conditioning system ...

When your air conditioner blows only mildly cool air or no cool air at all, it’s probably low on refrigerant. That means it’s probably time for an air-conditioning recharge, but there’s more to it ...

One of the prices we pay for discovering new, daily life-enhancing technologies, is occasionally inventing something that turns out to be less than ideal from an environmental perspective. That was ...

It’s a “green” gas that's meant to keep cars and the planet cool, but could it heat things up instead? Mercedes-Benz announced a recall this week after it found that a refrigerant used in the air ...

There are many pieces to the puzzle of equipment that is the car air conditioner, but one vital component of your vehicle’s cool air system is the air-conditioning condenser. A/C condenser is a ...

The refrigerant R1234yf is being considered for use in air conditioning systems in cars. Chemists now show that, in the event of a fire, it releases the highly poisonous carbonyl fluoride, and urge ...

The air conditioner in your car will be changing in the next several years, no longer relying on the coolant that keeps you comfortable in summer. Scientists believe that is good, because the coolant ...

The earliest record of an air-conditioned car was in 1933 when a New York-based installer became the first to retrofit an HVAC, which stands for Heating, Ventilation, & Air Conditioning, system to ...

Test drive a 10- or 12 year-old used car on a hot summer day and you might like some of the retro features, but chances are you won't like the air conditioner. The odds are ten to one that it no ...