Air Conditioning and Heating Systems

Air Conditioning Inspections start at $29.95

D & R Car Care and Lube Center has been specializing in automotive heating and air conditioning since our inception. Our technicians are trained and certified in automotive heating and air conditioning and take pride in their work. In 2007 we purchased the most up to date automotive air conditioning equipment on the market. Today’s cars and trucks take freon charges that are measured in critical mass, to the gram. By not charging your system to these critical specifications you would be risking component failure and you wouldn’t obtain the full potential of your vehicles air conditioning system.

The maintenance of motor vehicle air conditioning is regulated to prevent the escape of CFCs.

Summary of Federal Requirements

A Motor Vehicle Air-Conditioner (MVAC) is defined as a mechanical vapor compression refrigeration equipment used to cool the driver’s or passenger’s compartment of any motor vehicle. This definition is not intended to encompass hermetically sealed refrigeration systems used on motor vehicles for refrigerated cargo and the air conditioning systems on passenger buses using HCFC-22 refrigerant.

General Requirements

As of 11 May 2004, no person maintaining, servicing, repairing, or disposing of MVAC may knowingly vent or otherwise release into the environment any refrigerant. Personnel servicing/repairing MVAC must be certified and the equipment they use is approved by the USEPA. Additionally, the USEPA administration must have been notified that there is an individual onsite who has been trained and certified and is performing MVAC repair.

• recover any remaining freon refrigerant from the appliance
• check that the refrigerant has been evacuated from the appliance or shipment of appliances by reviewing a signed statement from the person from whom the appliance or shipment of appliances is obtained that all refrigerant has been recovered.

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