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Here's a 1st. Purchased a back up bottle of R1234A part #19260234. Received 11-16.

Went to use & the bottle is empty. Band new with sealed nozzle.

Has this happened to anyone else? Any Freon tanks?

we purchased ours back then too. First used it yesterday in the body shop, it was fine.

Curious to see how everyone is receipting this freon into their system and how it is being billed out.

Fixed Ops Mgr wrote:Curious to see how everyone is receipting this freon into their system and how it is being billed out.

Receipting and charging out in ounces. Divide your 30 lb. cylinder cost by 480 to get your per ounce cost...

uh .... that's a 10 lb. container of the R1234YF. We bill it out in grams and for the sake of warranty, our admin converts to units of ten (GM wants 100 grams billed as 10 units). There are roughly 450 grams in a pound, so a full cylinder we receipt as 4500 grams.
Now, this is where it gets interesting. For the sake of "loyalty", GM wants us to bill under the 19260234 part number which the Reynolds price tape sends as $675.00 cost SO .... to be "compliant", one must adjust the cost back down to 15 cents per gram everytime one runs a price tape. OR ... modify the part number and be "non-compliant".
Hope this helps !!

You can set Reynolds to not update the price.

You'd then have to manually adjust whenever there's an increase or decrease. At least you won't have to worry about it each month and that would also throw off any price change reporting done for the office when you do it month after month

Zep33 wrote:You can set Reynolds to not update the price.

You'd then have to manually adjust whenever there's an increase or decrease. At least you won't have to worry about it each month and that would also throw off any price change reporting done for the office when you do it month after month

I am on Autosoft, but it has the same feature and that is what we do.

As far as receiving it to the system...I only received 450 units, and I bill in 10 gram increments.

My bad. I thought you were talking about R134A lol.
For the R1234yf you have to divide it by 4500 grams. However, when you charge it out on warranty RO's they want it charged out in kg!
Ridiculous...yes.
See Document ID: 4592775 in Global for full info.
#12-01-37-001B

PartsPlant81 wrote:My bad. I thought you were talking about R134A lol.
For the R1234yf you have to divide it by 4500 grams. However, when you charge it out on warranty RO's they want it charged out in kg!
Ridiculous...yes.
See Document ID: 4592775 in Global for full info.
#12-01-37-001B

No, they want it charged out in increments of 10 grams. The last sentence of the bulletin that you referenced clearly states that.

Refrigerant R-1234yf must be billed out in the parts field of the transaction, using a quantity of 1 for every 10 grams used (difference between the amount recovered and charged shown on the printed summary from the GE-50300 or GE-50300-A). Example: 0.600 kg charged - 0.390 kg recovered = 0.210 kg used. This translates to 210 grams. 210 divided by 10 = 21 (the amount to be entered in the part quantity field).

Right on. Good thing I have a copy of the bulletin handy. We haven't had to charge any out yet.