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- From: aas7@po.CWRU.Edu (Andrew A. Spencer)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos
- Subject: Re: Intrepid and Ozone A/C (was Re: Whining about buying American cars)
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- Date: 16 Nov 92 03:31:55 GMT
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- Reply-To: aas7@po.CWRU.Edu (Andrew A. Spencer)
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- In a previous article, hacker@cco.caltech.edu (Jonathan Bruce Hacker) says:
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- >aas7@po.CWRU.Edu (Andrew A. Spencer) writes:
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- >>In a previous article, cid@athena.mit.edu (Derek H Cedillo) says:
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- >>>"The air conditioning refrigerant cools without harming the ozone."
- >
- >>this may easily be true..but i dunno who dreamed up that they are the
- >>first..this is the part i have problems with..considering that the
- >>new VW's use it..i believe both BMW and Mercedes use it some..all of
- >>these are, i believe 93 models..and methinks mercedes may have been
- >>using them even longer..i can't quote from anything right now..but
- >>i do know that VW's has been alleged on the net, and undisputed..and i've
- >>read the others at some time..just don't know where.
- >
- >True enough, but I strongly believe we will see this new ozone saving
- >miracle refrigerant (R-134A) banned sometime in our lifetime. There
- >are some disturbing properties of this chemical and since it is still
- >young (about 10 years old) its long term effects are still largely
- >unknown.
- >
- odd the way we do tend to keep doing this to ourselves, huh.....seems we
- are always solving the problems at hand with something that only makes it
- worse(or screws up something else besides) than the original problem...
- oh well..let's hope that this is not one of those cases...BTW..would
- someone please post on just exactly what they are using for non cfc a/c
- systems, as i have not read anything on them only that they are being
- used...not what they are/what they are made of/etc..anyone want to tackle
- a post on that subject(of course, at risk of being corrected! :-) but not by
- me!
- thanx
- DREW
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