Cool links. People actually rebuild these things. I guess its not completely a "throw away" world after all. I don't have the special tools or the time to tinker at this level. Although it would be fun to try, and alot cheaper. But I heard from the indy today and he said its not the compressor after all. Could you believe its worse than that? Turns out the a/c manifold was bad and had to be replaced, around 700 big ones. Oh well, I am now up to 3k on a/c repairs on the 300E and haven't seen a full summer in it yet. As a software engineer by trade like Larry, alot of jobs are moving off shore and mine could go there this year as well. So perhaps its a good time to learn something "cool" such as a/c repair. At least I wouldn't have to pay someone else to fix it.