How much does it cost to recharge the air conditioning?

Price by car size

What's included

What you pay for

Leak check and gas recharge.

With VAT, Spain average. Labour goes from 45 € an hour at a local garage to 90 € at the main dealer. The cheap price adds the cheapest hourly rate and the cheapest parts; the usual one, 60 € an hour and mid-priced parts; the expensive one, the main dealer's rate and the most expensive parts.

How often

How often it's done

• When it isn't cooling well

Cheaper or dearer

What the price depends on

• The garage. An hour costs about 45 € at a local garage, 60 € at a chain or multi-brand garage and 90 € at the main dealer, which also fits original parts.
• Car size. The bigger the car, the more labour hours and the dearer the parts: 0,6 h on a supermini and 0,8 h on a compact SUV.
• Where you live. Depending on the region, the same job varies by up to 21%: cheapest, Canarias; most expensive, País Vasco.
• If there's a leak. The price covers checking for leaks and recharging the gas: fixing a leak isn't included.

By area

Price by region

For a family hatchback, VAT included, from the cheapest region to the most expensive. You can pick your province above.

The difference between regions comes from Tallerator's average quotes (Autofácil, 2014), smoothed because the sample is old and small: take it as a rough guide. There's no data for Ceuta, La Rioja, and Melilla, so the Spain average is used (105 €).

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