Thread: 97 Blazer A/C
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Old July 15th 05, 12:01 PM
Ted Mittelstaedt
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"craigercj" > wrote in message
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> Condensed story: Buy used car when cold, can't really tell if a/c
> really works, assume it does (yeah, dumbass me). 3 days later it's like
> 75, a/c does not work at all, nothing, hot air. Complain to dealer as
> it was advertised as A/C, they agree to 'fix' it. Take it to dealer,
> put in dye, come back 4 weeks later, they blame it on the schrader
> valve. So they replace the schrader valve, clean the coils and say
> "hey! We'll gladly pick up the bill for this one!" 2 weeks later a/c
> starts losing it's coldness again, it's a leaking evaporator. $700,
> they refuse to pick up the bill.
>
> It all seems fishy to me like they were covering up the real problem
> the first time. I never received an invoice from them for the work, but
> the guy claimed it was over $200 to replace the schrader valve. Now
> that I've researched a little that seems far fetched.
> But anyways.. could the schrader valve really take the AC down to
> nothing as it was when I bought it? After a month would it affect the
> cooling at all?
>


You got yourself screwed over. They knew the evap core was shot.
The used car dealers when they get a car in with non-working AC will
put a charge in then sweep the system with an electronic leak detector.
If it sells before all the refrigerant leaks out then great, if not then
they
do nothing unless the customer complains then they put another
refrigerant charge in it.

If the customer keeps complaining then they just keep giving you bull****
until the 30 day warranty runs out then they refuse to do anything.

Your mistake was in going back there as soon as you discovered a
problem. You should have gone to another A/C place and paid the
$50 bucks to have a diagnosis written up on it. The other place
would probably have found the leaking evap core with a leak
detector in a few minutes. With a diagnosis in hand you could
beat the dealer over the head and if they refused you could sue them.
Now it's a case of he said/she said.

Dye is bull****, it's for shadetree DIYers too cheap to spend the
$100 bucks for a good used leak detector. And telling you to go away
for 4 weeks to give the dye a chance to leak out? Pure stalling.
And as for the leaky shrader valve? Hell half the shrader valves out
there leak, it's the nature of the things. That is why the caps on the
A/C recharge ports that are screwed down on top of the schrader
valves to cover them all have o-rings in them and seal the ports when
they are installed. The factory doesen't trust the schrader valve to
seal 100%.

Ted


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