>I haven’t had A/C in a long time. I don’t think I’ve had it since the car was new.
However I have no way of proving it.

I think the dealer is in cahoots with the car stereo place.
However I have no way of proving it.

I know that someone has lied to me about something.
However I have no way of proving it.

I brought the car in for the dealer to look at thinking it needed to be charged, like it came from the factory without any freon. Ok… well they said it was electrical. That makes sense, I thought, I did get the stereo upgraded and in order to do it they had to take apart the dash and route the wires from the speakers to the CleanSweep box.
There was talk of everything being tied to everything else when they did it, that’s why I still have my stock head unit – they couldn’t replace it.

So the dealer initially said it was my “controller” and they charged me $100 and told me that Long Radio would need to take a look at it since it was near “where they spliced in with the wires for the stereo”. Long Radio took a look at it the next day. I spoke with Aaron there, someone new that I hadn’t dealt with yet. He said everything was fine, that all they did was reconnect the hazard lights.

It was then to go back to Bertera in order to do further diagnostics for day 3. They took a look at it and when I called they said it was not working due to “massive rock damage” where a rock went through the condenser. The part would be in the next day and it would be $650.

I asked why they didn’t find it previously, and why they thought it was an electrical problem. They said they couldn’t get a signal from the controller. So it went from being the stereo, to the controller… to the condenser.

The things I was told changed with the situation, always conveniently fitting what they wanted me to believe. They blamed the people who installed the stereo until I told them who it was: Long Radio and that regardless of who hands me a bill I’d make sure someone was responsible – “Oh, they’re good guys you don’t want to do that.”

I know they’ve known the owner of Long Radio for a long time, tight little club they’ve got there.

At any rate they made me feel as though they were covering something up, or even that they caused the damage to cover the fact that Long Radio broke something. Long Radio said they didn’t do anything but hook the hazards back up which they negelected to hook back up the seccond time I brought my car back to them. Bertera Subaru said that they had repaired some wires, very true if they were talking about the flashers, but misleading in the way he said it.

I suspected them of something, called my insurance, and given that it’d be 3 to 5 days for someone to look at it, I left work early to bring my car to adjusters. She seemed alright with it, I’m still waiting for my determination, and I won’t bother if there’s going to be surcharge. There’s no sense in spending more money in the long run for a cover minus my deductible now.

It’s such a hard decision. All my gut is worthless as there’s nothing that can be proved, and since I didn’t check out the car in Feb/Mar when I first thought I had a problem with the A/C, I can’t say one way or another what did, or did not happen how they say it did.

A rock went through my A/C, and someone other then me is at fault. Even if it’s no one, which is most likely the case since I’m just driving along and *wham* there goes a rock… million to one shot doc… million to one.