nitroal1973

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For any of you with A/C problems, expect to pay more for refrigerant this year. Last year my shop was paying about $90 for a 30lb cylinder, I paid $289 yesterday for the same thing. Something about China buying the chemical make-up for some manufacturing or something like that...sounds like a scam to me.....

Mr. Beelzebub

You got butt raped, no lube. I can still get R-12...shhh

nitroal1973

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How do you figure?? I run a shop, all the parts places have raised their prices. R12?? BFD, I got 6 30 lb cylinders of it here, and can get plenty more. R12 is still readily available. Is your R12 in a 30 lb cylinder?? What did you pay for it??

R134a will continue to rise in price this year, you can bet on it.

streetglower

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ok, are you talking about R12 prices or R134 prices? R12 is expensive, but why are you buying 6 30 Lb cylinders of it? It would be more cost effective for people today to retrofit to R134A. No shops around here that I know of even purchase it, it is useless. repairs on R12 system gets too expensive, and when people realize that for less then $100 they can retrofit to R134A, they usually do that.

But unless your customers want to waist there money, then buying it isnt a problem.

Now with R134A, I havent seen any rise in price. My work charges customers about $10 to fill there car up with it when they have a leak, and the stores still sell it pretty cheap. Maybe it is cause you are in cali.

nitroal1973

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Last year we were paying about $80 for 30 lbs of R134a, just paid $249 for a cylinder of it. We bought all of the R12 because we bought it cheap, and a lot of people are not interested in the retro fit, because R12 still cools much better. I read some article about Dupont selling the chemical make-up of R134a to a Chinese company for some other use, thus leaving us with a shortage.