Does anyone have any views on how often you should get your air conditioning re-gassed?

My car is 10 years old and is just as chilly as when I bought it. It's never been re-gassed and I have it on all the time (unless the windows are open).

We had the Fabia done after about 8nor 9 years, the Octavia done after about 9nyears and I've just done ethe Kodiaq at 8 years... All due to reduced cooling rather than anything else

I'm with the above opinions of get it done only if it needs doing. The wife's Octavia is 9 years old with 55k on the clock and has never been re-gassed, my Superb is 3 1/2 years old with 130k on it and also never been re-gassed, and on both cars the aircon is working great as has been shown in the recent heatwave temperatures of this past week.

I got my Superb done recently. As far as I know it’s the first one at 10 years and 130k miles.

My wife’s kodiaq doesn’t cool as well as mY superb now and that’s 5 years old with 45k miles. Will probably Get it regassed before our summer trip to France just to be sure.

Officially it’s every 2 years

7 hours ago, Danoid said:

Officially it’s every 2 years

💲💲💲 😂

On 27/06/2026 at 17:32, Hozz said:

Does anyone have any views on how often you should get your air conditioning re-gassed?

When it stops working.

35 minutes ago, Breezy_Pete said:

When it stops working.

Almost Pete. When it stops working and it's too hot 😁

Edited Sunday at 18:402 days by defsix

SWMBO Focus went for 23 years before it needed to be regassed. The MKI Superb was a year old when we bought it in 06 and the AC didn’t work. Had it re-gassed and it was still fine when I sold it in ‘21. The 280 had a leak at the top joint of the condenser about 4 years ago so a year out of warranty, so it was re-gassed then. But 2nd borns 1 year old Hyundai Kona EV AC failed at 6 months and it was empty, so it was re-gassed a couple of months ago and it’s already failed again, so there has to be leak. He’s booked it in under warranty. Only a 10 week wait but only two more to go.

I had my '22 done last week, it seems better but in the heatwave I could barely feel the difference between a/c and no a/c. I tested mine with a meat thermometer, highly scientific, if you put a meat thermometer into a vent on full power a/c then after a few minutes it should be 6-10 degrees. Mine was 7 degrees, I did the same test with a/c off and it was about 19.

Edited 11 hours ago11 hr by Dave77

My Octavia needed regassing after 11 years a because the cooling was reduced.

At my 2 year service, my garage was extremely insistent that I paid €300 for a premium AC service...

I declined & I'll wait until I can feel the cooling striking in hot weather

Edited 5 hours ago5 hr by Gabbo

Have a look on Groupon, they often have good deals for re-gassing at local garages