In the mid 1990's when automotive air conditioning was changing from R-12 to R-134, a niece of mine had a 1991 Ford Taurus with an R-12 system that needed servicing. A repair shop in Lincoln, NE told her it was against federal law to service an R-12 system, and that he would be subject to a $10,000 fine if he was caught doing so. He told her all he could do would be to upgrade her system to R-134 at a cost of some $1400. My niece asked me about it, and I told her it was absolute bulls**t, and I could prove it. And I could have.
My niece went to three other repair shops in Lincoln, and they all told her the same story. A large number of repair shops in Lincoln must have all been in cahoots on it. I finally called the owner of a shop that I knew well and he said, "There's nothing illegal about servicing an R-12 system. Send her over, I'll be glad to service it for her".
So she went there and got her R-12 system serviced.
I could write a book on scams repair people tried to pull during the 10 years I was a Claims Adjuster working vehicle service contracts. We Adjusters often talked about it. Considering the scams shops tried to pull on us, knowing we were professionals, we wondered what the heck they were doing to an unsuspecting public.
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