New AC installed by mobile guy. What did I pay?

Mines 25 years old and still working great . 1992 model .
whats average age they go out ?
Itasca55

one in my old motor was 32 years old and still worked took some serious
power . But was always nice and cool .

I note that you are in Oregon.

I think service years in Florida are like dog years; they run long, hard and often. Usually on high.

My two Coleman 13,500BTU units in my '94 Bounder were working after 22 years. The rear never had a problem and I'd use it as a backup when the front unit went a bit squirrely. And that happened if it wasn't run until it was already hot. Then it would trip out on one of the limit disks. If instead of starting it up after it was hot, I started running it early in the day, it would run fine all day and into the night...

My '02 Winnie with the basement heatpump unit has worked fine since I bought it last year, and it's also a Coleman. 15 years so far on that one. Fingers crossed for another 10 years out of it.

timmac wrote:

Big Katuna wrote:


I inspected the coils before replacement and they were shot- falling off, a third gone.

And it definitely cools way better than the old unit.

How was 1/3 of the coils gone falling off, was that a cheap a/c unit or what, never seen coils falling off unless you hit a tree limb with the a/c.

We run the front unit while its parked next to our house. Set the temp around 86 so it runs several hours per day. Plus it saw salt a few times.

Its was a Coleman so I guess cheap?

There were two techs.. They had a good ladder and a flat strap-harness thing and the guy on top pulled while the guy on the ground slid/walked it up the ladder using it like a ramp.

I bought my dads 72 Airstream in 90 and the original ac failed around 95.

Two 16 year old 13,500's here still working fine, as are the two 22 year old 13,500's on our previous coach.

Mine is original 13,500 on a 1999 trailer. Still works perfectly

My A/C units are 13 years old and still working. Guess I beat that 10 years?

Amazing how the RV community is getting taken. A 15,000 BTU window unit at Lowe's $400. A 15,000 BTU RV AC $1000+ which is basically a window unit mounted on the roof with a plastic shroud.

Maybe the RV unit is built to handle a greater rigor, but there sure a lot of complaints from RV unit owners (me included) of their RV AC units going out at a very young age. If we are paying a 100% markup for durability, I would expect a life of at least 10 years, IMHO.

Well that was a silly game! Thought we were going to get a great RVer story out of this. Sounds like you paid what anyone would have paid in a similar situation.

Big Katuna wrote:


I inspected the coils before replacement and they were shot- falling off, a third gone.

And it definitely cools way better than the old unit.

How was 1/3 of the coils gone falling off, was that a cheap a/c unit or what, never seen coils falling off unless you hit a tree limb with the a/c.