first of all I drive a 3.5 2008 altima coupe.
so last weekend, I get in my car (it was in the high 80's) and I get in my car and turn the air conditioner on. Of course it usually takes a while to start blowing cold air, but I waited about 5 minutes and still wasnt working so I decided I should just open the windows. About 15 mins later, while I was on the highway, I turned it back on to see if it worked. It was still just blowing out what felt like recycled air and since it was so hot, the air was pretty warm too.
I finally got my car into the shop and it took them a day to figure out what was wrong but finally found out that I needed a new compressor.....
Now I'm no expert but I know compressors don't break that easily. It's going to cost me almost a grand and my warranty has expired. I'm not too sure what could have caused this, but I have gotten in one minor (depending on how you look at it) accident. During the winter it was very snowy and like an idiot I went out for a drive and on a VERY sharp turn, I slid off the road into a field. I did also run over a street sign that had been lying there already and did hear a scraping noise that didn't sound too pleasing. But that was about 4-5 months ago...
Any ideas what this could be? Has anyone else had a problem like this? and just to push my luck....any chance that Nissan would fix it for me...for free....
