Car was blowing ice cubes when we bought it from a private party. Drove it for a few months and then the AC just felt humid and not cold. This occurred right in the middle of a Florida summer so you pretty much can't even make it to work without having to peel yourself from the seat and the Love Bugs were especially bad so rolling down the windows was not an option if you didn't want to meet your first client with bugs in our teeth.

Not only did the condenser break, but somehow the metal pieces managed to make their way throughout the entire system so that the evaporator and everything else on the line (Dryer assembly, orifice tube...) needed to be replaced as well.

In early July I noticed that the AC compressor was kicking on and off a lot, just a few days later a whining noise started coming from front of engine. I took to dealership and was told that it was just how the engine sounded there was nothing wrong. I continued to drive and the noise progressively got worse. It got to the point that when the AC compressor would kick in the car would sometimes stall, and the noise sounded terrible. I took back to dealership and was told it was a bad AC compressor, they told me it would be 1300 dollars and take 3 days for part to come in. As this was my only car, I could not wait for 3 days, I decided to take it to a local mechanic. On my way there,the car made a very loud pop and loud crunching sounds after. The car started to overheat and I had to have it towed to the shop. The mechanic said that the AC compressor blew the clutch and busted a hole in the radiator. After an afternoon spent in an auto shop and 798.00 later the car was back on the road.