Have a leak in the evaporator coil of our AC unit. Unit is a 4 ton horizontal unit. Got a quote for $2300 today. Everything I am reading online seems to say it should be a max of $1900. Going to get some more quotes but what is a good ballpark?

No idea. Try stop leak first. $50 and can't hurt much. Gonna have to try it on my system soon (gets in next week) foot the same thing, so I'll let you know how it goes.

Bert315 said:

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Have a leak in the evaporator coil of our AC unit. Unit is a 4 ton horizontal unit. Got a quote for $2300 today. Everything I am reading online seems to say it should be a max of $1900. Going to get some more quotes but what is a good ballpark?

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So, I just learned an expensive lesson.

New build house purchased in 2013. Coil was replaced in June 2015 under the Lennox recall/original warranty. Cost to me was labor only, but still about $1200 (would have been $2k+ without the recall/warranty). Replacement was done by the company the builder hired to install the unit originally.

Yesterday (4+ years later) A/C starts acting up again. Needs a new coil. Company who replaced the coil In 2015 did not register the new coil and did not clearly communicate to me that I needed to do so.

So, the new coil is only covered by the original 5 year warranty on the old coil, which dates back to 2013 and is now expired.

Now I'm stuck paying for both a new coil and the installation. My quote is $2800, but I trust the company, and they are going to do some additional maintenance to the unit. I will be replacing this coil with an American Standard that has a 10 year warranty.

- quick answer .. yes. Coils and Condensers often don't get registered ( Lennox had a really bad couple runs of coils )

Trane and American Standard don't like that industry headache either. So they pretty much stuck a 10 year warranty out of the box.

Overall going from attic to another attic makes paperwork a faint thought for most contractors. Especially when that 5 year labor warranty isn't an issue for another 5 years.

Ppw is tough without office staff to handle it and a process.

And homeowners are usually all paid up by the time comes to file... once you pay a contractor, you might fall to the bottom of a "Things to do list "

7 years in and this unit has had ~$5600 in repairs and replacement parts. I'm on my third coil and second capacitor. Only about $1000 of that was covered by warranty.

That's $800 a year in A/C "maintenance". What a joke. Consumers are getting hosed by the manufacturers.

TXTransplant said:

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7 years in and this unit has had ~$5600 in repairs and replacement parts. I'm on my third coil and second capacitor. Only about $1000 of that was covered by warranty.

That's $800 a year in A/C "maintenance". What a joke. Consumers are getting hosed by the manufacturers.

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I've had the fun to deal with now several manufactures. I can confirm some manufactures aren't concerned consumers. There is usually 2 or 3 middleman usually involved..

Manufactures to Supply House to another Supply house to HVAC Contractor to Sub Crews. There's about 3 layers of mgmt not caring much somewhere in there.