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Originally Posted by Scott Douglas View Post
What I don't understand is how a good engineering company like Honda can loose the recipe for making a good compressor or at least spec'ing a good one from suppliers. My '02 Accord went 9 years without so much as a recharge of the A/C system and it still worked as good as the day I bought it when I got rid of it. Granted I used it just about every day, but it still worked.
What happened between then ('02) and now?
The pressure. Denso had a choice, and went with GM. So, Denso began making a crappy compressor for GM, and Honda picked up Sanden, whose compressors which were once bullet proof, turned to shyte.
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