TomB985
Well-Known Member
Go back to the shop with the AC machine. Tell them you bought all the parts and have second thoughts about doing the job yourself. They may do the job for the labor and new refrigerant. A Expedition has rear AC and almost 4lbs of refrigerant. My compressor went. The shop was able to save 2.8lbs. This stuff is not cheap. Oil has to be added also. The shop that did mine gave me a 90 day warranty and 1yr on the compressor. You may go through all this work and it could fail. Then you will be back at the same same shop, with an empty wallet. Sometimes in life, you have to pay the freight.
Refrigerant isn’t expensive at all… It’s come down a lot in recent years.
I saved several hundred dollars doing it myself, even more if you consider all the parts I didn’t replace. 13 months on I’m happy I didn’t pay shop for work I was capable of doing.