Air conditioner went out but was fixed in a couple days.
I adore this car, the day I got it I had the biggest grin ever, same as the first time I raced a Mustang 5.0 in it and stomped a mudhole in it. Long live the MN12.
The AC on my 97 T-bird has gone out three times: At 20,000 miles (still under warranty), 39,000 miles (just out of Ford warranty, but the dealer gave me a discount to replace the compressor). The last failure occurred two months after the compressor was replaced. The Ford dealer says the third failure was due to a Freon leak (keep in mind that the unit had been tested just two months prior and no leak was detected). I paid just under $180 for the Freon that can be detected by infrared, but when I took it back to the dealer I was told the test was unsuccessful and will have to be redone -- presumably for another $180. I normally keep a car past 75,000 miles, but now I'm making the rounds of the GM dealers to get rid of this T-bird before another major repair crops up.
I think the dealer was just trying to screw you over.
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