ac issue,honda's backing out

hi ,new to the forum ,excellent site ! please reply need help!
anyway, me and my wife have a 04-v ex have had it now for about 4 mths
which was purchased from a honest local used car dealer.only has 50,000
miles on it,now .well three days ago wife was driving and the a/c went out.took it to a honda dealer and had there service department check it out .well compressor froze up and tore clutch plate off .whole system needs to be replaced at a cost of 1,288.00.called coorporate to get help and file case and be issued a case number .well there trying to help(very little it seems) no amount has been said yet but now it seems there trying to turn it in to a (good will) help thing .this problem with the a/c could not been detected by dealer or used dealer honda certified or not .i am starting to worrie about honda and them standing behind there product .seems they have issues with the compressor manufactor?when would it reach recall statis? in which they would have to replace all of them?i have read that several others have had this same problem!i have had a honda, about half a dozen since i was able to drive with no problems this is the first.if you have had problems in the past let me know how it was handled!
please reply and offer help if you can,thanks!

OMG! This has just happened to me now I am racing to buy the parts and get my personal mechanic to do it himself. Honda corporate may give you 50% but its still cheaper to do it myself because I heard the esitmate could be as high as 3k
Best of luck, and keep in touch, I will post once my ordeal is over.

Unless you had an extended warranty, your warranty probably has run out and Honda refers to doing work past the warranty as "Good Will". Don't get mad...yet. They may come through for you. Don't consider "good will" with a negative connatation. We have had several reports where Honda significantly helped on these repairs.

Jpnut. Be careful. I read that some of these failures are quite messy and shrappnel is injected to the system. The repair may not be as simple as replacing the compressor and recharging the refrigerant. I am not saying not to go the direction you are pursuing, but use care. You sure don't want to spend a bundle on new parts and have junk in the system ruin your new compressor.

Part was replaced with a brand new a/c compressor! Power is still weak with A/C on, and a rattle noise can be heard when the Max A/C button is activated. Mechanic said allow 1 to 2 weeks to "break in". What do you guys thinks?

hi ,new to the forum ,excellent site ! please reply need help!
anyway, me and my wife have a 04-v ex have had it now for about 4 mths
which was purchased from a honest local used car dealer.only has 50,000
miles on it,now .well three days ago wife was driving and the a/c went out.took it to a honda dealer and had there service department check it out .well compressor froze up and tore clutch plate off .whole system needs to be replaced at a cost of 1,288.00.called coorporate to get help and file case and be issued a case number .well there trying to help(very little it seems) no amount has been said yet but now it seems there trying to turn it in to a (good will) help thing .this problem with the a/c could not been detected by dealer or used dealer honda certified or not .i am starting to worrie about honda and them standing behind there product .seems they have issues with the compressor manufactor?when would it reach recall statis? in which they would have to replace all of them?i have read that several others have had this same problem!i have had a honda, about half a dozen since i was able to drive with no problems this is the first.if you have had problems in the past let me know how it was handled!
please reply and offer help if you can,thanks!

that's about the price my g/f was quoted too. it went dead right at 60k mi. from what i hear this is a major issue. google around and you'll see the same. there are many, many that went bad. Honda seems to be avoiding responsibility at the moment.

My 2002 CR-V's (75000 miles) air just bit the dust. Dealer told me that they would fix with non Honda parts for about $1600 and since I just bought it 3 weeks ago and its only 277 miles out of warranty they would knock off $250. Before anyone derides me for choosing non Honda parts and saving about $1100, remember it was "Honda" parts that got me in this spot.

That being said, I want to know about others' repairs? Is there still failures with the rebuilt systems, Honda or non Honda parts? Do the "rebuilt" compressors hold up? This isn't the kind of repair that I can afford to have done every other year (I really can't afford this now, so something else isn't going to get paid for a while) and if I need to dump this thing soon then I will. Thanks

Lucky enough to have an 02 with 130,000 miles - A/C still works till a rock took out the condensor. But that's way cheaper than the compressor.

Hi, new to forum.
I just bought an '04 CR-V with 62k and no problems, but I have read about the a/c issue. I asked a local Honda mechanic (independant, not a dealer) and he acknowledged the problem but said that it only occurs in the cars that were assembled in Britain, and that those assembled in Japan have not had the problem. I want to confirm that by asking everyone who has had the a/c go out, where was yours made? See the sticker inside the drivers doorframe.

The a/c self-destroyed exactly six months after I took delilvery of my Japan built '04 CRV-EX (JHMAN).
I'm happy to report that in 34 continuous years of Honda ownership, I've always been treated well by Honda. :o

Sorry to contradict anyone but mine was assembled in Japan according to the stickers. Mine was one with the bad compressor. Good luck with the no problems thing. Just remember us less fortunate ones.:rolleyes:

The a/c self-destroyed exactly six months after I took delilvery of my Japan built '04 CRV-EX (JHMAN).
I'm happy to report that in 34 continuous years of Honda ownership, I've always been treated well by Honda. :)

OOPS . . . I just re-read this & "JHMAN" was the beginning of the vin of my '85 Civic Wagon . . . the '04 EX's vin started with "JHLRD" :o

I didn't mean to rub in the "no problems" thing, I meant "it's had no problems so far."
I bought this CR-V from my parents so I know it's been well cared for, though that has nothing to do with the a/c compressor not exploding. I can't imagine why they blow up in some and not others, other than sheer luck. There must be some common denominator.
I just wanted to verify what the mechanic told me, which now apparantly was wrong. I don't necessarily blame him as he seems pretty honest and is not affiliated with Honda Corp. His shop though does specialize in Honda/Acura, but maybe he just hasn't seen the a/c problems with the Japan models yet.
By reading these forums, it seems like every CR-V owner should expect the a/c compressor to explode, with little or no help from Honda Corp.

If anyone is interested, been rolling on the repair for a a while now and it seems to be doing good, considering it was about the coldest July on record. Now its heated back up, it is working like a champ.
When I picked up the crv, the service manager told me that the replacement compressor was bad out of the box and then they had to replace that one (he also told me they would charge the parts house for the labor and materials for the tear down and rebuild, not me).

kville_04crv- you wouldn't happen to bleed Volunteer orange would you? If you have a good independent mech, hold on to him like gold. Common denominator? Lowest bid gets the manufacturing contract. The service manager let me in on the piece of information that Honda care used to take care of these things a little better up to about 75k miles, but the number of complaints was too costly. To be brutally honest, we have become so spoiled that to do without the luxuries kills us. People lived without air cond long before us and we could get by without it now, we just don't want to.

Compressors blowing up? Considering the tolerances in the working parts of these things, I am truly amazed that they work at all.