Well, after all these years (had the car since new in 12/98, 40 miles) my AC was ok and I was counting my blessings with it. Finally, this fall I began to hear the frequent cycling of the compressor and my heart sank. It still cooled well enough through the hot weather, but I just took a trip from Washington to Boston last week and right in the middle of the trip up north on NJ turnpike during hard rain, AC quit and the windows started to fog up something terrible (two adults, two kids and one cat in the car all breathing).

So, I guess my question is do I just take it to the pros and resign to the fact that it'll cost an arm and a leg or is there something I can do before to try and remedy the situation? Is there a good sealer out there that is not dangerous to the rest of the system? Can I get by with it or am I doomed and it is the condenser? The car has Electronic Climate Control (ECC), other than that plain-jane no frills model.
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Vladimir. '98 S70 base, 5-speed manual - his, '93 945 (approaching 200K miles and rolling on...) - hers