Your car's air conditioner is nothing to lose your cool over if it's properly serviced and maintained. Air conditioning service doesn't need to cost a small fortune or mean you'll suffer in summer's stifling heat. Due to environmental regulation, the long-used refrigerant CFC-12, a chlorofluorocarbon, hasn't been produced since 1995, but you do have several options at nominal cost to take care of your air conditioning system:

 

	Repair leaks and hoses and recharge the system with CFC-12. Redwood General still has CFC-12.
	Retrofit the air conditioner and convert it to run on the new ozone-friendly HFC-134A refrigerant.

In some common repairs simultaneously retrofitting to HFC-134A could be less expensive than keeping CFC-12 in the system. Retrofitted systems are no more prone to leaks and don't have to mean major hardware changes. A retrofit may add to the trade-in value of your car.

Keep your cool by having your car's air conditioner evaluated and serviced
at Redwood General before warm weather arrives.

Updated 2006/07/10