2000 Concorde XLi - No Air

More then likely the evap is bad

A1) Yes, including the entire dash.

A) Chrysler Has extended the warranty to 70k on the LH for some years, I forget what years they did it. contact your dealer

A) About a 6 hour job, roughly $400. for parts

A) Deal or no deal? not a TV show.....whatever the book says would be a good deal

Glenn Beasley Chrysler Tech

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More then likely the evap is bad

A1) Yes, including the entire dash.

A) Chrysler Has extended the warranty to 70k on the LH for some years, I forget what years they did it. contact your dealer

A) About a 6 hour job, roughly $400. for parts

A) Deal or no deal? not a TV show.....whatever the book says would be a good deal

Glenn Beasley Chrysler Tech

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Unfortunately... I'm in Akron, Ohio. Medina actually. Mind sharing the manufacturer of that part? I can look it up for a source close by. A $340 premium on something known to fail so often the warranty was extended causes me to look for another supplier.

A $400 dollar part plus 6 hours labor at the Chrysler rate equals what?

$1000.00 give or take depending on sales tax, price of R134, PAG oil, shop supplies, waste disposal fees and any other wallet flushes you might encounter.

There appear to be two types of LH evaporators listed in aftermarket - plate fin and serpentine - which do you prefer and why?

Reference:

Bill Putney (To reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my address with the letter 'x')

And that would be cause for me to ask the dealership if I really look like I was born yesterday. That's $100/ hour labor rate.

Give or take...

Even at $85 you'd have; Labor $510 Parts $400 R134 $15-20 PAG oil $15-20 Sub total $940 Tax@5.6% $52.64 (using my sales tax rate) Total $992.64

Knock the labor rate down to $65 an hour and you're still spending $870.00

What's your dealership charge a customer per hour?

$89

Well in this case, I'm in the same boat as you - I have to replace the evaporator in my '99 Concorde, and I don't want to use the OEM evap. if it's designed to fail in 4 to 6 years like they apparently are. That's why I was asking Philthy the question since he seems to have an opinion (based on experience?) on the alternative (aftermarket) evaporators.

Bill Putney (To reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my address with the letter 'x')

Why? because it isn't warrantied for life? yep, they did it once, know for every vehicle you own , they have to warranty forever! f*ck off you whiner!

The problem is when leaves and debris gets past the cowl screen it falls down next to the bottom of the evap, it corrodes and causes the failures. When the evaporator gets replaced with a MOPAR part it comes with a special cowl screen which is supposed to stop foreign material from getting into the HVAC box. Was that screen installed at the time the new evap was replaced?

Glenn Beasley Chrysler Tech