Re: AC & York compressor followup

[Miles Lott <milos@insync.net>]

I took the car to Import Automotive on the near North side.
I forget about these guys, too.  I first went to them in 1985.
Alan let me roll it in and he checked the pressure.  Guess
what - the compressor is ok.  There were major leaks at the
fittings, but he was able to seal them with a couple of plastic
caps to replace the stock metal.  There is still a minor leak in
the evaporator - we'll see how long it holds.  Total cost was
about $90.  He estimated about $600 to replace the leaky
evaporator.  Considering the labor involved, this sounds
reasonable.  I will probably replace it when it dies/when I
replace the dash, and then take it back to him.

At 05:53 PM 8/17/96 -0500, you wrote:
>>I recently took my 82 Scirocco to a shop to have the AC checked 
>>Now these guys have given me an estimate of, get this, $856 to 
>>replace the compressor, drier, and expansion valve!  The compressor 
>>alone, they claimed, was $400.  Needless to say I told them to
>>get bent and yanked the car out of the shop.  You'd think they 
>>were doing a conversion to R-134 at these prices!
>>

Miles Lott (http://www.insync.net/~milos)
A.A.S. E.E.T./SBE BCST ENG

KTXH Ch. 20 in Houston, TX - home of the 
Rockets, Astros, Aeros, Terror


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