Q: Air con
I had my air con recharged last year abd have ben putting it on every coupke of weeks for half an hour. Just lately all it seems to do is blow warm once again. I thought it would last longer than 10months? Does this mean it needs a recharge already?
My car has 76000 miles.
My car has a manual transmission.
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