Mobile Vehicle Air Conditioning Service Shropshire & Mid Wales

Air Conditioning Mobile Service Engineer specialising in maintenance , repair and servicing of vehicle air conditioning covering Shrewsbury, Oswestry, Shropshire and Welshpool Mid Wales areas .

On-site Air Conditioning Service

Automotive Vehicle Air Conditioning Repairs to Car Van & Light Commercial Ambulance * Minibuses * Motorhome   * Commercial & Fleet HGV Trucks * Coaches *
Tractors & Agricultural machinery Air Conditioning Regas
Mobile Plant * Excavators * Construction equipment   * Quarry plant   *
* Marine

FGAS 2079 class 1 trained mobile service engineer travels to you to diagnose, fault find and fix your vehicle air conditioning system Telephone 07703 558610

FGAS Qualifications, Licencing & FGAS Legislation

The most commonly used refrigerants in vehicle air conditioning systems are R134a and R1234YF.

Complex EU & UK Legislation applies to the service and maintenance of both Fixed Static and Mobile Air Conditioning (MAC) and Refrigeration Systems. FGAS refers to Hydrofluorocarbons(HFC), Perfluorocarbons(PFC), and Sulphur Hexafluoride(SFC), having Global warming potential (GWP) in plain English, contributing to production of greenhouse gases said to cause global warming and climate change.

HFC is found in vehicle air conditioning systems using R134a (HFC134a) refrigerant (GWP1430) and R1234YF (GWP4) refrigerant. International environmental law has developed since the Kyoto Protocol aiming to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases by gradual phase out of environmentally damaging refrigerants.

Persons recovering refrigerant have a legal requirement to be F-gas trained and qualified as a refrigerant handler to meet the requirements of 2015 EC regulations.
Companies recovering Refrigerants should also be FGAS company registered see Guidance notes

EU reg 2006/40 applies to motor vehicle air conditioning systems.
(Article 6.2) All vehicles after 1 January 2017 can only have air conditioning systems filled using refrigerant with GWP below 150 unless the air conditioning system was fitted before 2017. Usual low gwp refrigerants in light vehicles are R1234YF or CO2.
(Article 6.3) If an abnormal amount of refrigerant has leaked from the system service providers are not allowed to refill refrigerant until after the air conditioning system has been repaired.
(Article 6.1) Air conditioning systems containing refrigerant above 150 gwp can not be retrofitted to some types of vehicle after 1 January 2017.
See(MAC directive) of EC F-Gas (Fluorinated Gas) Regulations also see http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/air-atmos/fgas/sectors/mobileaircon.htm for more details.

Updated F Gas regulations apply from 1st January 2015 (EU reg 517/2014).
EC 1494/2007 requires secure and clear labelling of products containing Fluorinated Gases 'contains fluorinated gases covered by the Kyoto protocol' with total quantity charged.
EC 842/2006 and EC 303/2008 specifies personnel certification and leak check requirements for air conditioning and refrigeration systems.
EC 307/2008 specifies minimum training requirements for recovering refrigerant from motor vehicle air conditioning systems.
The Motor Vehicles (Refilling of Air Conditioning Systems by Service Providers) Regulations 2009 No.2194 also applies

Statutory Inspection of Air conditioning and Refrigeration systems

Static and some mobile refrigeration equipment as used in hgv freezer trucks and refrigerated trailers, may be subject to a scheduled inspection requirement under new Fgas regulations EU 2015/2067 where systems contain refrigerant more than or equivalent to 5 tonnes CO2 (R134a quantity above 3.5kg).