Should have been a simple fix?
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Should have been a simple fix?
First let me apologize for a newby here being so long winded.
2015 Silverado 1500 5.3L 2wd. 75k miles purchased new. AC quit cooling, I put a shot of AC Pro in and it worked for about a week. Leaking somewhere and we all know where. Took truck to dealer to do scheduled oil change and transmission, drive line, cooling flushes and check AC. They couldn’t tell for sure where the AC was leaking so they put dye in with a recharge and told me to come back when it quit cooling. At the time the service manager stopped by and looked thru the grill commented about the usual condenser problem. I asked about the cost to replace the condenser and was told they’d check and call.(still waiting on that call). There dye recharge lasted about a week and about that time I ran into the service manager at the local Tractor Supply. I informed him that it stopped cooling and needed to schedule it for repair. He then offered to repair it for a couple hundred dollars less at his home where he and his son who is one of the wrenches at the dealership work on things after hours. I took the truck there on a Monday evening 7:00, he called later and said there was a broken bracket on the condenser and he’d get one the next day. The next day he called me and said there where none available and he was having one shipped from a dealer 3 hours away. He called late the next evening saying the truck was done. I didn’t pick it up till the following morning. It was a cool morning in the low 50’s when I started it up, the AC was set way down on low. I let it run to insure it was cooling noticing a louder than usual humm coming from under the hood. When I shut down the AC the humm quit and I drove off. I hadn’t tried the ac again until a warm day when I’d pulled the truck out of my garage and it had setting in the sun on a 70 degree day getting really warm inside. I started the truck, turned on the ac, heard the fan humming like a jet engine and no cooling. I called the man who said bring it back the following Monday. I tried it the next morning as I pulled it out of my garage and it was cooling along with the roaring fan that it never did before. Let it set in the sun all day getting heated up and it wouldn’t cool. Took it back to his garage, they hooked up their ac gauge and said the Freon was good. Plugged a box into the OBD port and after him and his son going back and forth from the cab to the engine he said it looks like the compressor is bad which is about $800. He jotted down my serial number on a piece of paper and said he’d call me the next morning with a price. That was 2 days ago with no call yet and I’m not sure they actually know for sure that’s the problem. I paid $550 for the condenser job and now they want around $800 or so to replace the compressor. Seems funny it worked fine when I charged it and the dealer charged it and it never had the radiator fan roaring like it was ready for lift off. I’d appreciate anyones thought's or advise on the dilemma.
2015 Silverado 1500 5.3L 2wd. 75k miles purchased new. AC quit cooling, I put a shot of AC Pro in and it worked for about a week. Leaking somewhere and we all know where. Took truck to dealer to do scheduled oil change and transmission, drive line, cooling flushes and check AC. They couldn’t tell for sure where the AC was leaking so they put dye in with a recharge and told me to come back when it quit cooling. At the time the service manager stopped by and looked thru the grill commented about the usual condenser problem. I asked about the cost to replace the condenser and was told they’d check and call.(still waiting on that call). There dye recharge lasted about a week and about that time I ran into the service manager at the local Tractor Supply. I informed him that it stopped cooling and needed to schedule it for repair. He then offered to repair it for a couple hundred dollars less at his home where he and his son who is one of the wrenches at the dealership work on things after hours. I took the truck there on a Monday evening 7:00, he called later and said there was a broken bracket on the condenser and he’d get one the next day. The next day he called me and said there where none available and he was having one shipped from a dealer 3 hours away. He called late the next evening saying the truck was done. I didn’t pick it up till the following morning. It was a cool morning in the low 50’s when I started it up, the AC was set way down on low. I let it run to insure it was cooling noticing a louder than usual humm coming from under the hood. When I shut down the AC the humm quit and I drove off. I hadn’t tried the ac again until a warm day when I’d pulled the truck out of my garage and it had setting in the sun on a 70 degree day getting really warm inside. I started the truck, turned on the ac, heard the fan humming like a jet engine and no cooling. I called the man who said bring it back the following Monday. I tried it the next morning as I pulled it out of my garage and it was cooling along with the roaring fan that it never did before. Let it set in the sun all day getting heated up and it wouldn’t cool. Took it back to his garage, they hooked up their ac gauge and said the Freon was good. Plugged a box into the OBD port and after him and his son going back and forth from the cab to the engine he said it looks like the compressor is bad which is about $800. He jotted down my serial number on a piece of paper and said he’d call me the next morning with a price. That was 2 days ago with no call yet and I’m not sure they actually know for sure that’s the problem. I paid $550 for the condenser job and now they want around $800 or so to replace the compressor. Seems funny it worked fine when I charged it and the dealer charged it and it never had the radiator fan roaring like it was ready for lift off. I’d appreciate anyones thought's or advise on the dilemma.
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