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My key concern with this thread is that there is a lot of "noise" about A/C failures on i8s whereas like every other car on the road, there is an age issue here in terms of seals and the need to keep the AC system gas charged. Yes, some pre LCI i8s had a compressor issue but most (if not all) should have had that fixed by now. The key thing is that every i8 is now at least four years old from its point of manufacture with some being ten years old. I would absolutely expect that they would have need to have been re-gassed at least once during that time. Seals degrade over time and leaks can happen more frequently.
I walked away from an i8 at a main dealer where the AC was not working since the main battery cooling also relies on the refrigerant gas circulation and I was worried as to how the battery may have been affected by this.
As others have said, leave the AC on (so you can quickly detect if AC performance is declining) and have it regularly checked every few years.
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