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Question of the Day: Which is the most hair-raising South African mountain pass you've driven?
Aircon for car
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ToxicBunny
Oi! Leave me out of this...
If you want it done properly, and for them to not screw up your car you're probably looking at closer to R6k...
ToxicBunny
Oi! Leave me out of this...
advertising is a wonderful medium for lying to stupid people.
Other Pineapple Smurf
Honorary Master
Its a mini air-con that they install in cars like my wifes ATOS. Has enough BTU for her car. My brother in law actually installed two of them in his old cars and was really impressed - he lives in Pofadder and really battle tests aircons.
Actually semi-true. My wifes car is automatic and it is seldom that I feel the aircon hitting performace when driving. We do drive a lot uphills and there is only one steep section that I can feel the difference - even my 160cc bike k@ks off on the gradient and I seldom have the guts to attempt it with my mountain bike.
Rouxenator
Dank meme lord
I would say nothing less than R6k. Recently got a Corsa Lite hand me down for my wife (note Lite, not Lite+) and it is like driving a microwave oven. The Bosch service center said it would be about R8k to install A/C for it.
No, he is talking about these: http://www.coolacar.co.za/
That is evaporation cooling not a real air conditioner. More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaporative_cooler
If you are talking about the standard ATOS air conditioner it's still just a normal air conditioner but with a significantly lower BTU rating, but if you know of something else, please post here I'd like to explore it for interest sake.
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Provo48
New Member
What car do you drive? Some vehicles already have some of the gubbins installed....
Other Pineapple Smurf
Honorary Master
Cool thanks for the info. He did install them in old cars so it made sense.
Not so sure about other ACs then.
Other Pineapple Smurf
Honorary Master
hj2k_x
Honorary Master
Only R2000. But according to the site, it only cools between 7-12 degrees. So, if like yesterday, it is 37, it will only get you down to around 30 then?
wikk3d88
Expert Member
Only R2000. But according to the site, it only cools between 7-12 degrees. So, if like yesterday, it is 37, it will only get you down to around 30 then?
thats alot better than winding down your windows and getting blasted with hot air, or having the fan blow warm air
hj2k_x
Honorary Master
Hmmm, I am not convinced
It only cools the air down that the fan is putting out so that air will be 'cooled' from 37 to 30 degrees - I am not sure you would notice much difference to be honest. Still like a hairdryer on a low setting.You guys do realize what you pay R2000 for right?
He takes a water bottle, attaches a hose to it with a pump, that then goes to a radiator that allows water to escape from it or at best some kind of spray nozzle. The water moves over the radiator and it "cools" the air.
7 degrees is highly optimistic IMHO.
Reason: He installs the water bottle in a warm engine bay, which will help the water evaporate more quickly but most of the heat is from the engine bay and very little ambient heat is absorbed.
Total cost to him is maximum around R400 looking at the quality of equipment he uses from his pictures. He uses a generic pick 'n pay milk jug to store the water in FFS.
Cheapest option that is worth it IMHO is to go to a scrapyard and get the complete air conditioner from a scrapped vehicle and fit that, it's still a lot of work to fit tho.
He takes a water bottle, attaches a hose to it with a pump, that then goes to a radiator that allows water to escape from it or at best some kind of spray nozzle. The water moves over the radiator and it "cools" the air.
7 degrees is highly optimistic IMHO.
Reason: He installs the water bottle in a warm engine bay, which will help the water evaporate more quickly but most of the heat is from the engine bay and very little ambient heat is absorbed.
Total cost to him is maximum around R400 looking at the quality of equipment he uses from his pictures. He uses a generic pick 'n pay milk jug to store the water in FFS.
Cheapest option that is worth it IMHO is to go to a scrapyard and get the complete air conditioner from a scrapped vehicle and fit that, it's still a lot of work to fit tho.
hj2k_x
Honorary Master
I have to concur...If it were any good, everyone would have one and not bother with the full AC.
Goobie
Expert Member
Biggest mistake I made was to install a CripsAir aftermarket aircon in my Corsa 1.6 bakkie (by Bosch), what a waste of money (~R6000). It cannot cool the bakkie down if it was sitting in the sun, I think the entire airflow path is just design to not be aircon friendly...the dash heats it up before it comes out the vents again. On long drives it is OK-ish, short in town drives it sucks!