1995 Buick Century "Michael Golden" <mgolden@bkbusa.com> wrote in message
> My son removed the blower motor and the resistor pack. This created
> enough access to completely clean the leaves out of the system with the
> use of a vacuum cleaner hose and a gently applied coat hanger wire.
> Other than having been plugged up with leaves the evaporator appeared
> to be clean. Total time was about an hour.
He saved you a bunch of money. Are you surprised that the dealership
wanted to hump you for several hundred dollars in work that was not
really needed - at this point in time, anyway.
I can say that IF they had had to remove the evaporator core and replace
it, the 6 hours might have been a reasonable time. Dealerships around here
charge $60-65 per hour, but in the larger cities that goes up to about
a hundred.
There was a time that GM evaporators went out very quickly, with holes
caused
by corrosion. They seem to last much longer now.
The compressors are, however, still a problem IMO. And they are no longer
inexpensive to replace. |