My heater died last week, and since my aircon was low on gas too I decided to take it in to my local aircon specialist. He rang me to say the heater pump had failed, and it was going to be $800 plus labour. I replied "can you please just replace the brushes? Pull the pump and check it and I bet the brushes are gone" which was greeted by a stunned silence. A couple of hours later he rang back and told me the brushes were indeed worn out and he was going to replace them. $20 of brushes plus a bit of labour and some refrigerant to top it up, and it was all thanks to the information I read in this forum. I think he thought he had an easy mark when I rolled in, shows how a little knowledge goes a long way.

Thanks to the forum I just saved $800, awesome one people!

 

So you thought he was ripping you off? What's he called, Con Air?? HA ha..

But seriously, who'd you got o in Hamilton?
I took both my cars one hot January (2008) to a guy up on the left on Te Rapa straight, and he was good. I knew he knew his stuff when I saw the series I E-type in there having a custom AC installation made.( I've forgotten the company's name now)

 

Yeah it was that guy. Cool Car is the name of the place. Seemed nice apart from wanting lots of money. Had a cute shop dog too.