Oldsmobile air conditioner

We bought a 98 Olds Aurora from a Nissan dealership. We noticed that the AC did not work. We had already negotiated large discounts on the car. The most we could get them to budge was to chip in $200 on the repair. They would use an aftermarket compresser to lower the cost.

Two days after they made the repair, our mechanic, while working on another problem, noticed a large amount of oil leading from the compressor. He told us the O rings were bad and that we needed a new compressor.

Nissan looked at it and told us that it was leaking from the tubing leading away from the compressor. They said is would be $440 to replace the main line.

My mechanic told me to take it to them to have them show me where it was leaking.

Nissan put it up on the lift to show me. They thouroughly cleaned everything to remove all traces of oil. While there they recaptured 1.97 lb of freon. It holds 2 lb. Nissan told me that the.03 is insignificant and that it is fully charged.

I took it back after 4 days to my mechanic who put it on the rack. He showed me that there was more leakage at the bottom of the compressor. He said that it is possible for the o rings to be leaking some oil without loosing freon. He told me that in a short time, the compressor will go bad once it looses all oil.

I took it back to Nissan. They told me they checked it and that there were no leaks, that it is fully charged, and that it could not leak any oil without leaking freon. They also said that if it had leaked any oil, it would be bright yellow from the dye they put in the system and that is now intermixed with all of the oil.

Who is right?