134-a

[B.G. Smith]

What is up with 134-A? Price has more than doubled lately, is it already obsolete and do they already have a replacement??? bg

 

[E7mack96]

My last jug, bought last October, was $65. 00 (30 lbs). The business next to me said it is like 350. 00 a jug now. I hope he is on the pipe. , lol



How much was yours???

 

[Todd T]

the plants that make it are shutting or have already sut down production. and he's not on the pipe. its well over $350 a pig right now.

 

[E7mack96]

Ok, I just called my supplier and they just quoted me :--) $460. 00 dollars. :--) Guess the drivers will have to do without air this year if their systems go down.

 

[B.G. Smith]

I bought a case of 12 oz. cans not long ago for around thirty dollars. The same dozen cans now is a little over a hundred bucks. bg

 

[E7mack96]

Johnstone Supply just quoted it @ $300. 00 a jug. The first supplier was Worldwide Equipment.

 

[d906670]

B. G. to answer your questions yes and late 05 it should be on the shelf.

 

[Jeff H]

The supply of r12 and the vehicles that use r12 have been dropping. Pushing the demand for 134a up. Glad my a/c in my 95 is still strong.

 

[Jdonoghue]

B. G. to answer your questions yes and late 05 it should be on the shelf.

Hopefully it's a 'drop-in' replacement and we all don't have to go through that 'R12->R134A' fiasco again.

 

[d906670]

Not sure? My brother who is a mechanic says thats the word coming down the pipe.

 

[tmpenner]

The story that I heard is that r-134 still had 1% clorine in its formulation and now they are eliminating the r-134 because of it. It went the same way with the r-12. Switching 6 tractors and 8 vehicles got rather expensive. We switched 75% of them to r-134 and the rest to "Enviro-Safe". We have not a bit of trouble with the Enviro-safe. No changeover was needed, just added it to the old system. No problem cooling and it has been in the vehicles and tractors for 6 years without leaking down. Now we are wishing we had switched them all to ES. Has anyone else tried the Enviro-Safe and had problems? It also can go in r-134 systems.