/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>2441997
Local company that made and installed my AC unit in 1998 was sold to ARS. they then stopped making the AC units, and stopped making parts.

heat stops working. company comes out and tells me my heat exchanger is bad and is tripping an overheat sensor, and no parts can be ordered. he puts a condemned sticker on the unit. tells me I need to get a new AC unit and they will do it for $9000 minus some government rebate that will expire so HURRY ORDER NOW.

I tell him to skip fixing it.

he leaves. I go up on roof at my next opportunity. open unit and look at heat exchanger expecting to see a hole in it. instead I see pic related. it was just held in place with swaging or something like that.

take the heat exchanger out and take it to a professional welder. have the whole thing welded. put it back in. total cost to fix with misc parts and paying someone to help me $242.

guy comes out to service unit at end of season sees the repair and condemned sticker removed. asks who authorized the repair and removal. I tell him I did, he tells me I can't do that. I tell him to get the hell off my property and cancel our service contract. claims I'm going to die from CO poisoning. I have a CO detector and it never registered any amount of CO.

unit worked another 6 years with no problems (total of 20) and no CO leakage (when we replaced it).

Later I found that the heat exchanger was still being made.

FUCK ARS.