It should be fine for some time...

It's the reality, at least around here. Unfortunately...

The car was not seen again since last time I posted here, probably will not come back.

Sometimes it's only a valve core or new o-rings...

The customer refused to go further for now.

I don't have fittings to test the compressor alone. We have some "universal" fittings for flushing but I don't think they will hold the vacuum. Anyway right now we will have to ask for customer permission to proceed, this was supposed to be a simple leak test and re-gas. On compressor mile...

Hello, thank you both for you help. The car is a VW Golf Mk7 year 2014 with around 100k miles. Now I'm almost sure that the problem is the shaft seal. I tested again for some hours with 20bar pressure, again no measurable loss. After that I released the pressure and tried to vacuum, this time it sta...

Hi everyone, I'm going nuts with a VW Golf Mk7 that a customer bring to us to fix and recharge the AC system. Recovered about 100g, after that tried to vacuum the system and the problem started to appear, my vacuum gauge was not going bellow 8000micron after about 30min of vacuum. After disconnectin...