Ice32 A/C oil additive?

One of our suppliers used to push this stuff pretty hard, but I never used it personally as we always went by the book when it came to oil/refrigerant levels


Found a dusty box on the shelf full of 1.5oz bottles and now I'm a little curious, but can't seem to find much info online apart from this video which appears to add it to functioning system without removing any existing oil


https://youtu.be/4OEEya_ntTE?si=yRSGUSirueSDiw_J



Anyone here ever use this stuff in this manner?

 

If you put to much of that stuff in there, your truck will freeze over...take days to thaw out

 

I never heard of that shit and I would never put any additive in my engine oil. Doing so, you’ll accomplish nothing and may even damage your engine.

 

Umm, this has nothing to do with engine oil, but I do agree that most engine oil additives are considered bunk


Anyhoo, a couple weeks ago I put my daily beater (2016 Sienna Limited ATP) on a set of gauges cause the A/C wasn't blowing nearly as cold as it used to.

It read way too high on the low side




Since she had 311,xxx miles and the A/C had never been touched, I decided to do a service and recovered 1.68lbs. of refrigerant (still within spec) and pulled 3oz of oil

After a good vacuum and leak check, I added 1.5oz of PAG oil, 1.5oz of the Ice32 additive and recharged with 1.91lbs. of refrigerant (max spec)

The results were the same, which indicates a compressor issue.

Since these compressors rarely ever fail completely, I decided to throw a control valve in it.

Not available separately from Toyota and I wasn't able to source a Denso unit, so I just ordered the cheapest one I could find on Amazon ($24 bucks)



Honestly couldn't tell the difference between the new one and the original



Now the pressures are back to normal and she's blowing ice cold again

 

You’re right. I glanced at it and F’d up. My bad.