driving with the a/c on is a rich mans privilege.

>>28472046 (OP)
i use the AC to increase engine braking

>>28472046 (OP)
The A/C in my car doesn't work

>Have 5 car garages and an RV garage with a full kitchen.
>Don't drive with A/C unless it's raining because the engine feels worth with it on.
Rich people wear jeans. Middle class go into debt for $400 slacks.

>>28472046 (OP)
in Russia

>>28472066
yeah no

>>28472066
>Middle class go into debt for $400 slacks.
Do Americans really do this? Do Americans really take out loans for cars and clothes?
In Europe we only take out loans to buy a house.

>>28472066
>$400 loan
>Middle class
Try working poor.

>>28472069
Picrel my RV garage and one of the other garages, I've got 3 more garages to the right of this.
That on the left is a 6.6 duramax high country. I wear shirts that are over 20 years old and rotate the same 5 pairs of jeans and cheap cargos.

>>28472080
>what is credit

>>28472046 (OP)
Drive to Scandinavia. The weather is so neutral I almost never bother with AC. It's always between 10-20C anyways.

>>28472078
It's called a credit card.

then why does my cheap shitbox have one?

It's not the 60's anymore, grandpa.

>>28472046 (OP)
>not looking up "how to fix car ac" in public library computer
skill issue.

>>28472085
maybe in lapland

>>28472063
based, i was using AC for the first time in a while the other day, and the increase in engine braking is intense

>>28472342
Modern compressors barely draw power but the factory compressor on my 1988 van takes so much power and makes so much noise that I'm pretty sure the engine and the AC system have to sit down and negotiate a trade deal on who gets the larger half of the horsepower every time I turn on the AC.
I would say it does some pretty good engine braking but the van is a rolling brick and the aerodynamics are so bad that I often have to use cruise control to maintain speed downhill, so...

>>28472081
Why do flyoverlets larp like this lol

>>28472565
Is it a larp if it's actual reality?
Most of the US is empty forest, desert, and tundra. You don't have to live 5 feet from someone else just to get in a good school district for kids you aren't going to have.

>>28472577
>flyoverlet larp

>>28472587
U jelly? I've got a hifi with subwoofers and can play counter strike at crazy volumes at 3am while disturbing no one and it costs less than a Chicago apartment. And there's never traffic. Pretty awesome if you ask me

>>28472608
>ebonics
Why would I be "jelly" of some larp? Do you even have any cars or just some slow truck and an rv

>>28472608
Bro, it's hopeless. Citiots can't understand.
Just enjoy it.

>>28472618
What do you have, fagboy? I've got tractors and zero turns in there.

>>28472625
>but muh lawn mower!!!
Kek lawns are gay as fuck

>>28472652
Mowing around my own lake with turtles rabbits and deer on the zero turn is a lot better than sending emails to shecklberg in the cage.

>>28472654
>hilarious larp

When I had a Prius, using the AC would lose me over 10mpg. I'd get 53mpg on my combined highway/city commute. With AC on, it would drop to 41mpg regularly. Still pretty good, but as someone who made a game out of how far I could go in my Nihon hybrid, it hurt.

>>28472655
One day you'll be an adult too and realize that everything around you is made by actual people. Or maybe you won't idk idc.

>>28472618
>>28472652
>the bimmer spic hates lawns
Go back to the desert shithole you came from.

>car has A/C compressor always engaged
>no point in turning it off
>A/C pulley bearing goes bad, sounds like rod knock
>only 1 serpentine belt
>forced to buy a shorter belt to isolate it
>otherwise pulley will explode and murder its neighbors

>>28472664
>ebonics
>>28472665
lawns are Ugly, Slow, Gay as fuck murican flyoverlet pikachu bullshits for "boomers" in the parlance of our times kek cry pussy

>>28472734
I drive a pikachu manual car made in gunma. I think heroin should be legal and guns should be banned. I can drift underpowered shitboxes without a handbrake, you can hardpark and talk about nothing. I literally grew up near Frankfurt / Stuttgart, I flyover your shits all day. Maybe try enjoying cars then people on a car forum won't find you so repulsive.

>>28472734
>he doesn't have comfy, nice looking grass
>so he lashes out and projects about crying

>>28472771
>nooo a bunch of larpfags find me repulsive!!
Don't care
See >>28472734 and put your trip back on my alabammy faggotini

>>28472780
Delusional

>>28472553
My 1976 Oldsmobile's ac compressor looked like a single cylinder Briggs hanging off the side of the engine.
When I got it the AC hadn't been used in about 8 years (tensioner pulley seized and snapped the belt). First time I drove with it on the car got 4mpg instead of the usual 16mpg. After that, it went back to normal and the AC didn't affect the economy

>>28472784
I smoke rocks.

>>28472794
I smoke grass.

>>28472784
You smoke cocks.

>>28472811
You wish, fagboy

>>28472791
Incredible, I love seeing old AC systems do their thing

>>28472868
You now know that refrigerants were responsible for the hole in the ozone layer.
You now also know that the current refrigerant R410A is trying to be banned by most of the first world and whoever discovers a better one will be a wealthy sumbitch.

>>28472078
there is no reason to not put everything on credit. pay it off at the end of the month, collect your free points or 2 or 3% cash back, or whatever. everything you buy, you should not have to pay for for 30 days, in fact they should have to pay you for the priviledge of technically being allowed to charge you interest if you happened to not pay up. but you always will pay it off, because you put on autopay, and you will never fall for their stupid scam.
euros will never understand that money today is worth more than money tomorrow, they cannot fathom an existence wherein the market expands at a rate higher than inflation. largely, this is due to their shit economies, but also low caloric intake. they don't have the brain matter to process the information. sad!

>>28472078
Bro they let you finance fucking McDonald's in America.

>>28473071
>Try the new $200 value menu
Let's be fair, if we ate as much as an American, we too, would have to finance our McDonald orders.

>>28473071
It's dey cultcha!!

>>28472878
Yes I prefer it when they are functioning not when they are leaking

>>28473071
Wat? Who eats 200 bucks of mcdonds in one sitting??

>>28472046 (OP)
If I didn't have long hair i'd always keep the window down. When I had short hair I enjoyed the window down all the time, but not with long (curly) hair it just completely fucks it up, tangles, etc. It looks like an absolute mess afterwards.

>>28472066
>feels worth

Translate to English plox?

>>28472066
>Rich people wear jeans.
Because they can afford replacing cars faster than the seats get damaged.

>>28473143
An American.

>>28472046 (OP)
No. Even when I was broke I had AC. I had a $400 car and a crap job.
>Scavenged an AC compressor from a trashpile windowshaker and used it as a vacuum pump
>bought a used set of manifold gauges off craigslist
>took the AC system apart and put new o-rings in it
>bought refrigerant and PAG oil at walmart and recharged the system
>had cold AC that still was working when I got rid of the car

In later project cars I've fabricated brackets to mount upgraded AC compressors when OE became scarce, made custom lines with parts purchased online to accommodate swaps. The only difficult thing about AC is dealing with the same shit that makes other parts of the car difficult to work on like having to remove half the interior to get to the evaporator, or dealing with corroded fittings.

>>28472046 (OP)
Ac is a must in any vehicle. Heat can be optional.

>>28478935
This. You can always put more clothes on if you're cold. If you're hot you're fucked.

>>28472878
Some air conditioners and industrial refrigerators can actually work on R744, aka carbon dioxide.
I think it needs like 10 times the pressure, though, so maybe it's not the most practical choice for a mobile system.

>>28478939
You can always take clothing off. Get tinted windows, being naked isn't an issue.

>>28480269
You haven't felt real heat if you think being naked is a solution.

>>28480274
I live in southern florida. I think I know what real heat is with how humid and miserable it gets in summer.

I'm jobless but TDI is most efficient ICE ever. Thus my jobless ass hets A/C and you live from pay check to another

>>28480359
Can you repost this, but in proper English?

>>28472066
>Incoming larp story about being a land contractor for trillionaires and how they all drive 1972 ford pintos with no AC

>>28480361
english is written with small letter even at beginning. Worthless island.

>>28480382
Calm down, Rakesh

>>28480387
All Indians know english.

>>28480416
Yeah so does most of the world, but guess what? Just like most of the world they can't speak or type it properly and you can immediately spot an ESL like yourself.

Can someone help a retard out, I've not had ac in my car since i bought it. The compressor won't kick on, and bypassing the relay doesn't do anything. Forscan says the PCU is sending the signal but the compressor isn't getting it. Its also saying the static pressure isn't equalized, it's 45 low/90 high. Would this be caused by sitting for a long time? It hasn't been driven regularly for 4 years

>Chebby K1500 has no A/C
>Ask dad to check it out but he's too lazy
>Add freon myself and notice the schrader valve is leaking
>Replace valve and other seals with 10 dollar parts kit
>A/C blows so cold it fogs the windshield
It's literally that simple I've even started fixing other people's A/C in their vehicles.