Well finally the air conditioning in my car seems to be working. Today it went to Bilia (Volvo) here in Västerås where they did what I'd read was the usual fix for this model of car! Two other places had done different things, neither of which helped.
The first place, our nearest car workshop (where I usually get it serviced) just topped up the gas and said that it was all right. Because it wasn't all right I took it into a garage while on holiday in Skåne while the temperature was about 30 degrees. They said there was in fact a little too much gas in it, adjusted that, and tried it for a few minutes and declared that it was OK. Later the same day the very nice man had a demonstration of the fact that it wasn't fixed! He then fiddled with it for an hour or so, while I was there, and only managed to make it somewhat worse! At least I didn't pay anything for that hour's work!
Of course it won't be as hot again now until next year, but it did keep pumping out cold air all the way back from Volvo, and they did do what I expected them to (or rather just hoped they would do).
What did they do? They adjusted the electric clutch on the compressor. If you look up '1999 V70 AC fel' you will eventually find blog entries like:
Du kanske behöver schimsa ac-kompressorn, det är ju ett rätt vanligt fel på volvobilarna.
(You might need to adjust the shims in the AC compressor, a rather common fault in Volvo cars)
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