I have a 2013 Honda civic and the AC compressor pulley is supposedly stuck in place and damaging the serpentine belt according to the shop I went to. The AC hasn’t worked in a year. The AC is expensive and I just need reliable transportation. This shop wants $2845.00 to fix the entire compressor, replace the belt, and recharge the AC. I’m pretty fed up after spending $600.00 for a throttle body service, Engine Air Intake Duct Replacement, and new spark plugs due to emissions/engine light that came on. Cost saving suggestions to keep this baby running?
All right, see if you can get a pulley bypass kit. Will you take the compressor off and just replace it with the pulley. If you can't find that, go to a junkyard. Get a used AC compressor and just bolt it on. Don't hook it up. As long as the pulley spins and you don't hook it up, it'll spin forever. It only activates the compressor itself if you hook the electronics up. So just don't hook the electronics up. If you buy some used compressor just to get it so it spins
