Shingles and diverters...

Worked on the shingles in the early morning hours and again in the late afternoon. We are now about 75% done and should finsh up tomorrow. In between shingling sessions, I took the van to the Ford dealership to have a routine service and to get the heat and AC checked out. It turns out that the cooling system is fine and the heating system is fine but the blower system is totally FUBAR. It all has to do with a diverter - a little door that switches the the origin of the air going into the passenger compartment from hot to cold. The broken part is less than $70.00. Unfortunatley, this part is buried under a mounatin of instruments, modules, wires, doo-hickies and thing-a-ma-doojers in Ford vans. This means that the labor to install the little part is almost , 10 times the cost of the little part. You read correctly: over $700.00 to fix the AC on a van that is not worth much more than, well, $700.00.

I told the 'technician' that I would 'investigate other options'. He gave me a strange look. At the bottom of my statement this is written: 'Customer declined repair at this time.' Heh.

At least the air is cold on the Pathfinder.