Karl,
I don't want to sound d*ckish, but why are you cutting corners on a
job that involves easily 20+ hours of work? OK, so you maybe save
$200 on an evaporator.
Until you have to take it out in a couple of years when it fails.
You're saving some serious coin by doing this yourself, I presume.
Buy an OE part and be satisfied that it's right. I would not roll
the dice on something like this.
Back to the books,
Dan
I agree in principle, but in this case, the original does not have a
stellar history. At any rate, I think 4 seasons is reputable.
The original MB part number from 1986, 1987 etc was NOT reliable or
reputable. By the time they got to the xxx xxx 07 xx part,
presumably they had fixed it 7 times. (or at least switched
suppliers....)
4 seasons makes most of the automotive heat/AC parts used in the US
of A for repairs, including repair parts for some of the
manufacturers. So IF you went to a stealer, you might end up with a
4 seasons evap anyway, depending on what vehicle you have. (I'm
guessing MB does not use 4 seasons for ersatzteile)
Crock auto is $76.79 for the 4 seasons evap. I sure would NOT buy
one from fleabay when crockauto is so much cheaper. At least
crockauto will stand behind it to some extent. Fleabay won't.
Crockauto has a listing for Behr/Hella, but it sez "out of stock."
If we were to call crockauto, it may be possible to have them get a
Behr.
In this case, when the factory evap has a history of failure, I think
I'd call 4 seasons and see if I could talk to the engineers. I'm
guessing they are well aware of the OE failures (prob'ly 90% or more
by now) and can tell us how theirs are better than even the 07
version of the OE evap. (or maybe tell us that the 07 version is
made by them...)
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