Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Thing 3: Cooling Coils

Symptoms: Funny toasty smell from your car's Air Cond vents.

Likely Cause: Dead Cooling Coil.



This is what you get for not servicing your air-cond every 2 years (workshop recommendation, I reckon 3 years should be a fair interval)

After 7 years of ignorance, my pal's Proton Wira 1.5 Auto racked up a bill of RM421:

RM215 Cooling Coil (Thailand-made, or so they claim)
RM 38 Drier (filter device)
RM 78 Valve Exp
RM 90 Labor, Gas, Oil

Shop claims that the locally made cooling coils are only RM180 but they dont stock it. They claim there are more complaints from those. But thats just what they say. Believe it, don't believe it.

So.... did my pal get conned?

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