2003 Vibe, FWD, 1.8LOur air conditioning is completely dead. We tried recharging it, and that didn't work, so we took it to a friend who runs a mechanic shop, and he said that the unit needs replaced...How do we find out if that's the Compressor or the Condenser that needs replaced?!?! We can't affo...

CEL has been on for quite some time...Autozone says it's one of the two O2 sensors, but they have no way of knowing which one?!? Is there a way to find out before we replace one? We can't afford to replace one and find out it wasn't faulty! Also, what is the best place to order one from? We're prepa...

I pulled it out without a replacement because so many other posters pulled theirs out, washed them, and reused them. I somehow thought it would be the sort of filter that didn't fall apart easily.As far as the cost of replacement vs. cutting down a bigger filter, I'm thinking one of those big furnac...

A bit of thread necromancy here:I just tried this, and somehow broke the crap out of my air filter. Like, the glue holding the filter to the side things must have been dead, because the thing just pulled out without those side tabs.I now have a really really long sheet of dusty stuff, and a car with...

Okay, I've asked at like 379 auto parts stores, and the general consensus is that the Blower Motor Resistor doesn't exist.Can someone please tell me where to get it, or at least a part number? We're dying of heat here!

Thanks, both of you! I'll find some of those threads and hopefully get the problem fixed before the temps get up into the 90s here in a few weeks...blech.

So, sometime around August of last year, I read about the trick where you contort yourself into an uncomfortable position and fiddle with the bits under the glove box, to make the AC blow colder (or something like that). I printed out the page, followed it to the letter, and it worked...for like, 5 ...