Any one know what type of ac console this is?

[srfjay]

Just not sure what type it is from what i searched . So any help would be awesome. Thanks Jason

[fwardell]

It's a Frigiking A/C, popular on many 2002s as a dealer add-on. The other brand is Behr. Your panel looks like mine. I could use one - what do you plan to do with it?

[Mike Self]

radio at the top, and the A/C controls at the bottom, on a small angled protrusion (replacing the long console) or parallel to the faceplate (replacing the short console). It also says "FRIGIKING" on a panel between the two controls.

If that's a Frigiking, it's different from any I've seen and I'd like to know more about it.

cheers

mike

[Cruzr]

I have a new in the box Clardy unit, and if I recall correctly, that's the same panel...

[Ray-2002tii]

Correct-a-mundo...it is a Clardy.

[landon]

Interesting as I have had a Behr, a Clardy, and a Frigiking and none of them looked like that. My clardy had only one row of vents. The frigiking was vertical on the sides ( did not flare out). The behr only has one row of vents also.

[srfjay]

Hey guys does this help? It is the rest of the system. So it is a clardy?

[Napes]

FWIW That's not anything like the Clardy faceplate in my wife's ' 76. In her's the vents are down low with the ash tray up above. And it's definitely not like my Behr faceplate.

Bob Napier

[Emyers]

If that is a Clardy, it must be an extremely early model. Clardy used a swashplate compressor, also known as a rotary, and the interior panels look nothing like those. I have some pics at the house of my Clardy, will post this PM. That looks like a Frigiking system

Earl

74 02Lux w/Clardy AC

72 Volvo 1800ES w/Frigiking

02 M Roadster w/factory AC

[visionaut]

Definitely NOT a Behr A/C - which only has one long articulating vent along the top of the console, right below the dash.

Tom

[Mike Self]

Midwest (may hae seen 2 or 3 in 25 years)--and the one I see every day on my car is a Frigiking. The dead giveaway on Clardy units is the bulge on the pax side (from the blower) that intrudes into the pax footwell--can't see that in the picture.

cheers

mike

[rtheriaque]

Definitely NOT a Behr A/C - which only has one long articulating vent along the top of the console, right below the dash.

Tom

I have an original Behr A/C console if anybody is interested. It's not a concours piece, but it's not abysmal either. I can post pictures if anybody is interested.

[DanOKC]

I'd say it's a mix of two systems, frigiking blower motor & evaporator & clardy front panel.

[jgerock]

srfjay - Yet another VW lover - I see your Type IV engine in the background.

ps: My car has the Behr unit. Not so nice to look at, but it works.

[Emyers]

Here are pics of the Clardy as installed in my 74. The blower fan motor, as mentioned in a previous post, is visible in the second post. The Clardy uses a different style fan motor than the type shown in the pic. The pictured motor is very similiar to the Frigiking unit in my 72 Volvo 1800ES.

Earl

74 02Lux

72 Volvo 1700ES

02 M Roadster