Thinking About Buying
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hey im thinking of buying this car i just recently wrecked my other civic. i was wondering how hard it would be to put a A/C on it. He said he has all the parts.
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4500 for 95 Civic seems a bit steep for me. The answer to your question, it quite easy to install but you probably need a new dryer and some misc. parts to get it working. It won't be cheap. If I were you, I would look for another Civic with a working AC for around 2000 bucks and use the difference for the upgrades you want.
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about the A/C...
I'd imagine that the only parts removed were the ones under the hood, nothing under the dash.
It's not expensive if you have all the parts... put all the parts on, with a new receiver/dryer (also called an accumulator). Put the dryer on last because its internals cannot be exposed to the atmosphere for long, which is why it needs to be replaced in the first place. Then after it's all back on, go to an auto shop, and get the system vacuumed out and recharged. That will run right around $100-120. Dryers aren't expensive, like $30-50. So for $130-170, it will have A/C again.
For the car's price, just look it up on KBB.com
Go by that price, and try to get him to go down about $170 under that to make up for the cost of you fixing the A/C.
$4500 is ridiculous though. The car is in great condition though, so go by the "good condition" price on KBB.com, and try to talk him down just a little. Even if you pay KBB exactly, that's not that bad considering it has some stuff on it, even though it's technically not suppose to raise the value of the vehicle. It all depends how much you care about the mods that are done to it though that determines whether it makes it worth a couple hundred more.
I'd imagine that the only parts removed were the ones under the hood, nothing under the dash.
It's not expensive if you have all the parts... put all the parts on, with a new receiver/dryer (also called an accumulator). Put the dryer on last because its internals cannot be exposed to the atmosphere for long, which is why it needs to be replaced in the first place. Then after it's all back on, go to an auto shop, and get the system vacuumed out and recharged. That will run right around $100-120. Dryers aren't expensive, like $30-50. So for $130-170, it will have A/C again.
For the car's price, just look it up on KBB.com
Go by that price, and try to get him to go down about $170 under that to make up for the cost of you fixing the A/C.
$4500 is ridiculous though. The car is in great condition though, so go by the "good condition" price on KBB.com, and try to talk him down just a little. Even if you pay KBB exactly, that's not that bad considering it has some stuff on it, even though it's technically not suppose to raise the value of the vehicle. It all depends how much you care about the mods that are done to it though that determines whether it makes it worth a couple hundred more.
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That's still too much in my opinion. Someone selling a modified car means they got tired of fixing it yet again after ragging it out. 20,000 miles on the "new" engine could be an awful lot considering the type of driving it has experienced.
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