Brenden kealy - Auto Air

[Keith]

Has anyone ever used this guy? I can't get in touch with him, left voicemails but no reply yet.

What looked like smoke (probably Gas) started coming up from the vents the other day in the car, turned on the air con and it got very heavy. It wasn't a burning smell so I presume is gas from the compressor or something. Thing is that I can't drive the car like that as its coming and going. I don't really want to leave to car into mitsi as it would be daylight robbery and there technical skills leaves a lot to be desired.

Anyone know if there is a good automotive air con crowd/guy about?

[CJ]

Keith, taken from this post:

On the flip side of the coin I found a brilliant Air Conditioning company called Auto Air in Meath. The engineer there, Brendan Kealy, was extremely knowledgeable, he ran a full pressure test to see if there was a leak in the system, repaired the condenser (Very, very expensive to buy from Mitsubishi), flushed the system and re-pressurised it with the Air Con fluid. The Climate Control is now as good as new for the exact same cost as the standard Air Con Top-Up. Good service above and beyond the call of duty.

Just a thought but the guy could be on holiday.

CJ

[Speedyboy]

Ill check our customers in work tomorrow and see will one of them help you , Does the smoke smelly fishy like coolant?? Or gasey like refrigerant??

Is the carpet in the in the footwell wet?

[CJ]

Is the carpet in the in the footwell wet?

Yeah, I didn't want to mention the heater matrix so as not to scare you

CJ

[Keith]

He could be on holidays, never thought of that.

Speedyboy, The carpet's not wet. Its hard to tell what it smelt like, I wouldn't be sure anyway. Ill PM you my mobby incase you find someone
that can help. Thanks.

I called 5 other people from the golden pages, 4 of them were just
voicemails and not one called me back. The other guy I got through
to said he would call me back, twice but never did. Must be a good business to be in.

[Speedyboy]

Was talking to the lads there they reckon that its just becuase the air was soo cold like when you turned on the aircon, So he reckons run the car for a while and it should just go away .

He said if refrigerant was leaking it would be long gone by now?

Let me know how you get on.

[Keith]

The air con hasn't worked since i bought it, I only used the heater end of it which worked fine.

Should I turn on the air con/heater while letting it run? Any chance that I can cause serious damage doing it?

[Speedyboy]

HMm if the aircon isnt working then the air would hardly be so cold that it would be giving off that smoke? so thats my theory out the window,

[Keith]

Its not gas coming from the air vents its steam , looks like there is a leak. The smell if it is disgusting. Called mitsi and they said that they only use auto air and gave me his number.

I hope he's back from holidays soon.

[Speedyboy]

Im almost certain its steam from your heater matrix if it smells disguisting , Are you loosing coolant from the resovior ?

[Mustang]

Keith,
CJ's reference to the heater Matrix and my own interest to get rid of the musty smell in my ac got me surfing the net. Stumbled across this....

"Corrosion will cause the heater core (secondary radiator) to leak. This will manifest itself by leaving steam into the passenger compartment and fogging your windows. You will know there is a leak by the sweet smell coming from your vents. Unfortunately changing the heater core is usually not the easier job in the world as engineers tend to squeeze them into some pretty tight spaces under the dash."

Mustang

[Speedyboy]

A lot of cars are running on anti freeze instead of coolant and this is rotting the aluminium cores in the radiators,

Also the problem of electrolysis where current is leaking into the coolant can destroy the core,

Unfortunately a long days work to get at the heater

[Mustang]

Speedyboy wrote

A lot of cars are running on anti freeze instead of coolant

Can you please explain? Is this heater matrix directly connected to the engine cooling system? If so are you saying that people should be using a coolant instead of anti-freeze:?: I didn't know that there was such a thing as coolant (as apposed to antifreeze). Excuse my ignorance here, as I really know nothing about it, but now I'm afraid........

Mustang

[Keith]

Just to let you know that the guys from auto air were on holidays, they called me back first thing monday morning and were out to me that evening. The leak was in the heater matrix.

In my desperation, I had called Paul to see if he knew anyone
that could do it. He said he could. Said it was worth trying to fill
the leak with a filler. Got my car back on the road last night and
it seems to be fine.

Scot from auto air said that if they were going to replace the heater matrix that they would take the car off me some evening, do the work out of hours and should have it back to me the next morning.

[Speedyboy]

Can you please explain? Is this heater matrix directly connected to the engine cooling system? If so are you saying that people should be using a coolant instead of anti-freeze:?: I didn't know that there was such a thing as coolant (as apposed to antifreeze). Excuse my ignorance here, as I really know nothing about it, but now I'm afraid........

Mustang

Only reading this now, Yeah the heater is normally in the same system as the engine cooling so uses the same coolant, You can see the two skinny coolant pipes going into the bulkhead.

The difference betweeen coolant and antifreeze (Besides €12 per gallon)
is that coolant has an additive kinda like an oil that wont destroy the aluminium parts in the car like the radiator, heater and the like.

If your refilling the system the best thing to do is completely flush it out and start afresh with 1:1 coolant and water

[Mustang]

Thanks Speedyboy