Q: AC Repair

asked by on September 14, 2016

My AC is blowing warm. I was told the Comperssor needs to be changed and the price would be $1600 at PepBoys. I have looked online and see that it says would be half of that.

My car has 112000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.

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