Goodman AC Lemon

Evidently Goodman sells lemon air conditioning. Do yourself and your customers a favor and don't ever buy a Goodman or Amana product.

I have a unit that is 4 years old. I've already replaced the condenser coils. The compressor sounds like hell, and I had to put a hard-start cap on it.

And now the evaporator coils need to be replaced. My AC has been down for a week. First, Goodman told the service guys that they didn't make the coils anymore. Then they came up with a replacement which they said would be there overnight. Then when the service guys went to pick it up, they said they didn't have any in stock.

So now I have in Florida heat without air conditioning for another week until Goodman finds a replacement coil and sends it here.

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divnivan
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Gotta hate it when the lowest price comes back to bite you inna ass.

Reply to
Noon-Air

One would expect from this that this is a conclusion based on a large number of reports.

Now it seems that in fact you're saying this because *you* got a bum unit. Don't you know that every product from every manufacturer is less than 100% glitch-free? You have no business telling people to avoid a single product, let alone an entire manufacturer, based on your one experience with one unit.

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Harlan Messinger

My guess is he had a dud installer.

Reply to
CJT

Don't look at me. I'm in New York.

Reply to
Stormin Mormon

The OP is a home owner, and most likely not a tech. It was the cheapest equipment, most likely installed by the lowest bidder for be found. The OP didn't get what he didn't pay for, and now he's pissed.

Remember the commercial "Pay me now, or pay me later"?? Guess what, its later.

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Steve

"Stormin Mormon" wrote in news:g6dn9q $rra$ snipped-for-privacy@registered.motzarella.org:

LOL!

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Red Green

Harlan Messinger wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@mid.individual.net:

Well I got a Goodman gas pack this year. It's putting out 58 deg when it's 100 outside with the sun on it and 52 when the sun does down representing a 20 to 26 degree differential. So, I can't complain.

I guess my experience negates the OP's experience.

It will be serviced by the company who installed it in the spring. Any preventative maintenance (PM) it needs it will get. I prefer paying PM anually in pieces vs saving a nickel anually then whining because something got fried being over worked.

Reply to
Red Green

Change your filter every time you get your utility bill & pay the man for a yearly checkup & you'll be a happy camper.

goodluck geothermaljones

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geothermaljones

By that logic I should tell everyone to buy the unit that I installed in my house about 10 years ago. It's a heat pump & its run trouble free since the day I installed it. I've never touched it since, not even done any periodical check-ups. Guess what brand it is, oh! it's a Goodman.

Your problem seems to be not with the equipment but with the people you're dealing with. I wouldn't be surprised if the condenser coil was replaced on a guess & now the next thing to replace is the evaporator coil. If you replace enough stuff sooner or later the leak will have to stop.

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Gary

"geothermaljones" wrote in news:O9adne9TR5kgBhfVnZ2dnUVZ_v snipped-for-privacy@comcast.com:

My filters have always got changed the first of the month religiously. A nice touch; with the install came a 12 month supply of filters.

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Red Green

Gary wrote in news:g6e6at$pio$ snipped-for-privacy@aioe.org:

And we have no idea if it was run without those pesky filters or is still sporting the original one. Or maybe it's installed directly under an eve bombarded by water or better yet below a valley. Bulls-eye for icicles.

Reply to
Red Green

At least you know your work...

Reply to
KJPRO

Don't forget about animal urine on outdoor coils and indoor air quality issues for the evaporator...

Reply to
KJPRO

How could an evaporator coil go bad? Did your technician charge the system with ammonia instead of Freon?

If you've been using the same A/C company, I'd switch.

Reply to
HeyBub

Depending on the brand and the installation, if its not done correctly in the first place, you can expect 7 - 10 years befor they start leaking.... if it was installed correctly, and properly maintained, you may get 18 - 30 years before your have problems.

Reply to
Steve

Simple, they start leaking... Look up formicary corrosion.

Reply to
KJPRO

Ah, thanks. I found this:

"Formicary coil corrosion is caused by contaminants in the air that collect onto the condensation that forms on indoor coils during a cooling cycle. These contaminants turn into acids when they are exposed to the moisture, etching the copper of the coils in a manner that looks like tunnels in an ant farm."

I'm in Texas where the people and the air are pure, so we don't see air-coil ant-farms (we do, however, have fire ants and law schools).

The OP is in Grand Rapids, Michigan. I'm not sure that contributes to the air quality. Maybe he's downwind from an unsanitary Taco Stand.

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HeyBub

Doesn't matter where you live today, as the newer coils are made cheap with cheap materials. That means thinner and thinner copper being used to keep things cheap while making them more efficient.

Formicary corrosion is caused by household products off gasing fumes. They include but are not limited to... carpets, furniture, hair spray, purfume, etc, etc... New homes are effected the worse, as everything is new and the gases are stronger, sometimes effecting a coil in less than a year. There's new coils being manufactured to slow this effect down... as it is a major problem in todays world.

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KJPRO

Having followed this thread for some time I could not sit by any longer. Anyone that says goodman or amana make decent heating and air products is just plain full of shit. I am NATE certified (gas heat, heat pump and ac) for service and install. What unit do i work on the most? Goodman. What unit do I work on the second most? Amana. What unit did our company stop selling because of too many warranty issues? Goodman and Amana. We have the same installers we had then that we have now. We sell Trane now and I've run exactly 2 warranty calls on all the Tranes we have installed in the last three years. Both of them were for leaking txv valves. While an installer can definetly screw up any system while installing it, a good installer can't do anything if the equipment they are installing is shit. Goddman and Amana are pure shit. Fuck you if you say otherwise. Shields up, cloaking device activated.

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