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Manny,
I paid $2000 for the really beautiful wagon... teal colored with the best aftermarket paint job I have ever seen...and I have painted some cars myself... on the door jams it looked like it was from the factory....I drove it a couple of years.... and sold it for $750.
I took it to local mechanic who did AC work and asked him to just check the AC for leaks by pressurizing it. He only put pressure in one side and told me the Txvalve was blocked. When I took that off I found it clean and working. I did find that the evaporator and the long hose across the engine were leaking... $180 on the hose.. but the evaporator was beyond my scope of fixing because I had not found FSM's for the car at that time. The front suspension was slowly deteriorating and finally was unsafe to use... the wheels were spread at the bottom too much for me... though TxBill drove it to Houston from here just fine... the transmission was losing reverse.. had tried the Trans-x and that helped for about a year... when I checked on getting the trans rebuilt the only person in the area was not too swift... AND wanted $2200.
The AC switches on the dash only considered the buttons I pushed as ' suggestions'... they would come on or not... then decide to do something else... the diagnostic for JUST that type 2 dash was 80 pages long in the FSM...
So that experience taught me I wanted a type ONE AC system... with manual wire control from the dash... my 1980 240d has that.... it taught me I wanted a manual transmission MB... my 1980 240d has that. Being at the mercy of a local yahoo dealing with my AC taught me that I needed to do the work myself... so that is how I got to where I am... but everyplace I go... I go with AC due to the other cars I have... I am not going to rush anything I do to my 240d for the benefit of the peanut gallery....
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