How did the technician determine the compressor had gone bad when in your previous posts you indicated the system was cooling after a period of operation ?
Receiver drier is located on the condenser and is a requirement of the warranty from the supplier of the compressor 99% of the time. This is 100% standard.
Yep, always replace the receiver drier when replacing a compressor, bummer that it is integral to the condenser. But then if there is a catastrophic compressor failure it is always best to do both the receiver drier and condenser.
Catastrophic compressor failures can send particles/chunks throughout the system.
Yep, in 30 years of vehicle ownership I've only had one fail with over 225K miles on it and that was because it got driven through saltwater after Hurricane Nicole a few years ago and the shaft bearing got trashed. I keep my vehicles a long time. I think "compressor failure" gets diagnosed way too often.
I'm trying to figure out what recovering and refilling the refrigerant would have fixed? Maybe @mwilk012 can chime in. I get recovering, fixing a leak or failed component, then recharging the system. Doesn't make sense to me.
Realistically the only thing that recovering and refilling would accomplish would be to weigh in the factory rated amount of refrigerant and then trim the charge (need system rating of subcool/superheat) for temperatures and pressures read.
It happens all the time, I see probably 2-5 a week during the warm season. Most common failure for compressors today is the variable displacement compressors just getting stuck at that ~5% output. Other than that, Nissan is the king of compressor failure, the clutches are always going bad. Full on seizure is less common, but does happen.
