Diagnostic Fault Code Record
Turn a diagnostic session into a record the next technician can pick up. It also gives the customer something better than 'it had a code'.
Garage and vehicle workshop · GV-01
A free printable air con regas sheet — one row per vehicle with refrigerant type, specified charge, recovered and charged weights, leak test and vent reading.
One page. Choose your paper size — both versions are laid out identically, so neither one gets shrunk to fit.
Print it and write on it
Fill it in type and save
The fillable versions have real form fields — open them in any PDF reader, type into them and save. Printing help.
Keep the regas machine's own record in step with the job cards, so a comeback can be traced to what actually went into that car and when.
Garages and mobile air conditioning technicians running a recovery and recharge machine, and anyone who has to show what refrigerant was handled.
One page, top to bottom:
Printed under the title: One row per vehicle through the regas machine — what came out, what went in, the leak test and the vent reading, so the machine's own record and the job card agree.
The charge weight comes from the car. The refrigerant type and the charge weight for each car are on its own underbonnet plate or in the manufacturer's data — copy them from there, never from the last car of the same model. The machine's recovered and charged weights go in as the machine reports them.
Write-on lines: Workshop · Regas machine (make / model) · Month
Table, 13 rows: Date · Vehicle reg · Refrigerant type · Spec charge · Recovered · Charged · Oil / dye added · Leak test · Vent temp after · Done by · Job card
Because it is different for every car, and getting it from the wrong car is how a system ends up over- or under-charged. The plate on the car and the manufacturer's data are the only places to take it from, so the sheet gives you a column and leaves the figure to them.
Whatever your machine and your process use — a vacuum hold, UV dye, an electronic sniffer or a nitrogen test. Write which one you did and what it showed; the column does not assume one method.
Turn a diagnostic session into a record the next technician can pick up. It also gives the customer something better than 'it had a code'.
Keep a service history in your own hands, so it survives changing garages and is there when you sell.
Capture a job while you are still standing in it: what was asked for, what was done, what went into it and how long it took.
See the day as one page — what went through, what was carried over, what was taken in cash and card and whether the till agrees — before it blurs into the week.
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