here are the facts:
3:00 appointment, he shows up at 5:00…read morepm. I told him it's cooling but not well, probably needs more refrigerant, probably has a leak. He hooks his gadget up, says its low on refrigerant, might be due to a leak, but he couldn't tell me where and it was and would cost more than 800 dollars to do a full test to find where. He started focusing on the corrosion on the coil. He called a couple places about part costs but they were closed at 5 pm, they wouldn't have been closed if he was there on time.. He was there from 5 pm to 5:21 pm, for 21 minutes, and charged me $100 saying "I hate that I didn't fix anything for you but I have to charge you for my time" He didn't fix anything and told me what I already knew plus some bs. Days later they send me an estimate for $2000 to replace the coil, which had nothing to do with the cause of the leak. They lied to me about multiple points, first: They pretended to look into if it would be under warranty. He said that my warranty claim was denied because I'm not the original owner, and also because even if I was "they" said they wouldn't cover the corrosion because it was caused by dog urine. What they didn't know is: sure I had a dog when he walked in, but I've been here for years with no dogs. I never had a dog until about three months ago, and regardless my small dog never goes in the back yard. I asked how is it dog pee, isn't it more likely wet grass from the mower since it's such a uniform pattern all on the side of the unit that was exposed to the mower discharge? He still kept going on about how it's dog pee and I need to pay $2,000 to get the A/C working again, without proving to me how the coil corrosion was the cause of the problem.
I finally get ahold of RUUD to ask about their warranty. They said I would not be denied for being the second owner, that it's still good for 3 more months for a second owner so that was a straight lie he told me. Then RUUD said to get the distributer and claim number to see why it was denied. I asked Action heating and cooling for the info, he said he didn't have a claim number. How is there no claim number if the claim was denied? He was just BSing me. I spent hours on the phone and researching all this yet I gave them $100 for "their time" when really it was for nothing to get fixed and hear nothing but lies.
I called Bryan's Heating and Cooling for a second opinion. He found the leak, it was a bent nozzle, he fixed it, was there for about an hour, recharged the refrigerant, leak fixed, got the ac working fine all for 560 total, a reasonable price. Then he got on the phone to warranty the coil, and everything was ok, warranty was ok. The second company I went with showed me either how incompetent or how crooked Action Heating and Cooling is. I paid a hundred dollar lesson so that someone else could learn from my mistake in going with Action Heating and Cooling.