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Now on this 2012 prius , After installing the NON-OE condenser there was only a little raise in the pressure not to bad but today was cold in SF on a hot day it will increase and inefficiency will increase to. This aftermarket condenser had two fins less per inch and only missing one row of cooling tube. Some times I see 4 fins missing per inch and 4 to 10 cooling tubes missing. Of coerce the insurance Co feels good that they are saving you the customer money RIGHT???. Here we go again. More work for me or another shop later, but will it give the body shop that installed it a bad name or will the customer pay out of his or her own bank???. Oh yea, most of NON-OE condenser have a piece of paper that say they meet or exceed oe spec. and are compliant, some BS and there is some sales REP who will tell you, that are the first person that told them this, or its can't be the condenser.

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lech auto air conditionin, Oct 28, 2012
    • Avi's Advanced Automotive
      I would change insurance companies if they told me that. Why not ask the customer if they want to pay the difference to use an OE part? I no longer use aftermarket condensers in my shop, however, as I'm not a body shop I almost never have to deal with insurance companies.
      Oct 29, 2012
    • lech auto air conditionin
      unfortunately most of the time the customer never knows, and it is to much trouble for the shop to explain this to every customer and if the body shop is sleeping with the Devil AKA ( insurance CO ) Direct repair. The body shop is under the gun to turn out the car as fast and cheap as possible. Repair shops don't quite understand how body shops work and body shops can't and do not have the intelligence or ability to run like a repair shop. Two different worlds. Every 4 to 6 years the insurance CO change their mode of financial priorities, the good ones become bad and the bad ones become good, " it's complicated ". I'v been in both fields my whole life and my father and grandfather and uncles and cousins, we have always owned repair and body shops.
      In body shops you can find living proof of the missing link before Neanderthal to human being. They are usually the owner. Don't get me wrong there are some good body shop , but cheap , technical ignorance and lazy do not go together well to repair cars for the customer.
      Oct 29, 2012
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