My 01 civic was in the shop after a accident. It was rear ended and then hit the car in front. It was not at all a major collison. I brought it the the dealership and got it fixed, it was around 2000.00. Now my ac blows hot air. When the car got repaired then changed the condensionor and recharged the ac. I brought the car back and they said that the ac coil and clutch need replaced. And that is was not accident related and it would cost 700.00 bucks. I want to know when they charged it could they have damaged either the coil or the clutch. And is 700.00 a rip off.

 

yea thats a rip man u can get a new ac compressor WITH the clutch for a couple hundred bucks........but i dont see how that would be NON accident related.......how long have u had the car

 

It is a 2001 I am the orginal owner and it has about 70,000 miles on it. Does the clutch and coil usauuly go bad. I am about go to pick up the car and want to have some backing when I talk to the service guy.

 

no way man that isnt supposed to go.........but i guess if u use the AC more frequently it woudl brake faster.

 

Could the coil and clutch frezze because of too much feron. Because they said that the mixture or feron and air was off and there was too much feron.

 

Have you ever had any work done on your A/C? If not, it should be the fault of Honda for putting too much freon in the system. Ask the mechanic to put it in writing, then send it into Honda requesting that they reimbursh you for any costs incurred. KEEP any original paperwork.

 

Thanks, this is the first time anything has been done to the AC. So if they put too much feron in it, it would cause the clutch and coil to frezze, correct?

 

I'm not sure about the freezing.....I thought you meant the mechanic told you that. But anyways, still ask the mechanic to put the part about "too much freon in the system" in writing for any future warranty.

 

I don't know much about your A/C but i had a A/C que too haha. How hard is it to install A/C. I would like to put it in but i was wondering if it would be way to hard.

 

Does anybody know what the life expectancey of a ac coil and clutch, I am still fighting with the body shop/ins company. Body shop says not their fault and Insurance company says they can not do anything because the Body shop says not accident related.