Thread: New Air Con for 130 TD5

As we Know the air con in the TD5 is only just good for days that only get to 30 ( well 25) and it takes up a lot of room in the passenger foot well and with the wife being over 6 foot she did not have much leg room ( even with seat extensions ). So since I had to replace the gear box after the 5 gear Failed I noticed that the floor was well and truly missing a lot of the metal in both the foot wells. So after replacing them and Dynomat the cad of the 130 I looked into replacing the aircon.
I did not want a roof to unit at all.
So after a bit of looking around and talking to a few people I decided on the Red Dot 6840.
As I had replaced the rear seats with a set from a single cab about 8 years ago, and the kids no longer travel with us (only the Dogs now)I thought that the middle seat back could be a good spot to mount the aircon
After making a cardboard cut out of the size of the aircon I seen that it was easily going to fit in that place
Went down to my local Auto spark and Aircon place and asked if he was willing to do the job. He said yes not a problem
Well now I have it back and it is FANTASIC I have cold air blowing all around the cab even in the foot wells and today was 35 here today and I had to turn it down.
I can still put 2 people in the back as it does not interfere with there seating position
Cheers
p.s. Don't know why the picture is on the side



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Originally Posted by bully130

Took it back to the installer yesterday and showed him that pipe you mentioned LuckyLes
He immediately fixed it with a thick cork based insulation tape.

That's the stuff. We used to call it tacky tape. Cork insulating tape.
Les