Stealers

[Steeveedee]

One of my friends was asking me for a reference to a shop I trust to work on his AC, which was blowing hot air. I told him I would check it out for him. A couple of weeks go by, and he had some work done. He asked that shop to look at the AC. They told him it needed an evaporator core, which would require tearing the dash apart and cost $2400. We both do woodcarving, and I told him again to let me look at it, when he came over for some carving time. We went out, and I had him run the AC. I could feel that the low side was cold under the hood; further investigation showed that he had 56° air at the center outlet, sitting at the curb, once I dialed the heater knob off of hot. I told him to take the thermometer with him (I have a few) and let me know what the temp is when he's on the road and has the ram air effect. I'm betting that it needs a little refrigerant, since he doesn't remember ever having the system worked on.

So, they would have gone and invaded his dash to the tune of $2400 and not fixed the problem, because he might have had the heat dialed up next time he used the defroster.

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