Black Or Blue And Red?

Just throwing this snippet of information into the google mix as it doesn’t seem to be there at the minute…

If you want to recharge the air-conditioning on your Lancia Delta Integrale Evo, you need to know which kind of coolant (or gas) it’s filled with.

In the engine bay, there are two pipes running down the passenger side of the engine to the air-con unit - one with lagging, and one without. Each pipe has a small plastic cap sticking out of it. If both caps are black, then it’s filled with R12 (nasty old-fashioned coolant which is bad for you and the environment or something) and if one is blue and the other red it’s filled with R134 (the newer, safer, friendlier coolant).

Of course, mine is filled with the old nasty stuff, so it’s going to be harder to get to a point where I’m impervious to the outside temperature again…