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Originally Posted by Tech II
You are wasting your money, your vehicle not worth even close to $1000.....drive it as is, and be glad it's still running....
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I realize my car isn't worth 1K....that isn't the point. The point is, I do not want to buy a used car for 14K or 10K that I don't like. I've been car shopping and I don't like the new cars out there. I like my Chevy Cavalier. My car only has 80K miles on it, whereas the newer "used" wagons I've seen have over 100K or even 200K miles on them. I don't like them for a number of reasons. This isn't about deciding whether my car is "worth" 1K or not. It's about finding out the details of retrofitting it with a/c. I've been told by one mechanic that it would need a new compressor to retrofit the a/c. So, getting back to basic questions on this, is a new compressor necessary to do the full retrofit or is that just something the mechanic told me to make more money on this conversion? Thanks if anybody out there has done this type of retrofit on a 1985 Cavalier or a car similar to this one. (btw, I've been approached by at least two people wanting to buy my car to restore, so as years go by you might be surprised that some of these older cars do retain more value than you think)