Well thanx man I do appreciate it :) I will write all this down so I can go
to Target tomorrow. The a/c like I said works when its not so hot outside or
when it rains I guess because the car is cooler. I did find a place that
tints the windshield with a "special" tint they say to keep the heat out but
it is sort of dark looking when you look at it but when you sit in the car
and look out of the windshield you cant even tell it's tinted except for the
heat from the windshield seems more relaxed and not so hot so ???? I might
look into that? Thanx alot and I will let you know how my recharging went :)
I am good with cars my daddy taught me well so I do know quite a bit for a
girl. Wendi

I have a 96 Accord LX4 door.  It is black and sucks up the heat as well
though now where near the 112 that your dealing with.  However, I have found
that the AC over the past year began to go as well.  So after doing some
searching I finally recharged the system my self.
I went to Target and got a R124a recharge kit for $25.  You can get this at
any automotive store as well.  I would suggest getting one that has the guage
on it so that you can see how full your system is.  You will also need some
sort of Thrermometer.  I used one that you would put into meat to see f it is
done cooking in the center.  The reason I used this one is that you will
stick it into the center air vent.  Accordcing to most things that I read you
should get about a 30-40 degree difference from the outside air temp to the
AC.  I measured mine and was getting a 20 degree difference.

Follow the directions on the bottle but it was pretty simple.  Turn AC on
full Blast and drop the windows so that the AC compressor keeps running.
(doing this during the day helps keep that compressor going)  then look under
the hood.  as you face the car, over the left fender you will see two blue
caps on different aluminum tubes.  The bottom one is the low pressure side of
the AC system.  (it makes it easy because if you get the wrong one then the
Recharge kit will not fit it anyway.  So hook that up and then pull the
trigger and charge it while saking the can.  It took me about 15 minutes or
so to fill it up into the green area on the gauge.  Also the kit I had you
had to press down on the part that fit onto the tube as well as pull the
trigger.  (tricky tricky)

Anyway if this doesn't work long for me then I will know that I have a leak
and will take it to someone to fix. (I have read that you can get a recharge
bottle that has a dye in it that will show you where your leak is if you have
one.)  However, since you have a 97 then I think that you will lose a little
over time and if you are the first owner then you know whether or not you
have had it done in the past onthat car.

Hi all you sexy Honda lover's. I have a question about my 1997 Honda Accord.
Now I live in Arizona and it's about 112 degrees here and my A/C seems to
"try" to work but it's not ice cold like it should be? I figured I need Freon?
Any suggestions on if I should buy some and give it to the dealer to put in
or can I put it in? Is there any Freon that is "better" then the others in
other words I want the a/c ICE COLD because it is SO hot here and when the
sun is beaming through the windshield it seems like the a/c isn't working at
all :(  I also see that ALOT of cars have thier windshields totally tinted
and I went to a few places and they said "No,it's illegal to tint the whole
windshield"? Do you guys think thats totally true or do you think if I keep
looking I will find someone to do the WHOLE windshield. All my other windows
are 2% yes VERY(illegally) dark but I just want the windshield tinted maybe
10% just to keep the car a little cooler is this just not going to happen?
Please any suggestions will help :)
Thanx~~~Wendi