BRKLYN

Can someone please share with me, what I can expect to pay for this repair. Both of them, ac works fine, no cold air inside, super cold on firewall side. I've pulled Bart cable off, fuse off. One time temp felt better after the fuse pull.

vettpapaw

I had both of mine changed not to long ago. Vett shop changed them out for $375 plus parts.

jrp1588

Cost me like $60 in parts and a couple hours to do both. The dash on these things really isn't all that hard to pull.

BRKLYN

Really? I know the doors are about $40 to $60 a piece. Is there a link on dash removal?

001pewter

Not hard at all, just time consuming.

I removed it to fix the dropped hud, you can check for the dash removal tips in those topics also.

jrp1588

It's been a while, maybe I'm underestimating the cost. Seems like I got them for $30 each on ebay though. As for instructions, I just started removing hardware. It's all pretty straight forward.

Vetteman Jack

Moved to C5 Tech.

BRKLYN

Anyone know of a shop near Orlando area? Trust worthy that is. In 13 years, I pretty much did it all, have no garage and no tools now.

redzg

Corvette Masters in Maitland has great reviews -- but is very small and quite busy. Give them a call to see what their schedule looks like, (407) 831-3990. I have not used them personally, and did my door actuators myself. I will argue that changing them is quite difficult. Dash removal is not a walk in the park, and when you have the dash out, bear in mind that the driver's side actuator and passenger side actuator use the mounting holes in different configurations -- drove me crazy for an hour or 10...

K-Spaz

Do you have manual AC or Dual Zone CC? They are not the same actuator and the DZ are twice as much. More like $90 each or $100.

Obviously opinions vary about the difficulty of this job. I find it not a big deal, but then I just got done tearing out the rear suspension, trans and diff in mine. I was able to do mine without removing the dash, if you can believe it. But it was NOT easy that way. Need to be rather skinny and flexible to be down there that long and reach the screws, but it can be done. Regardless, I'd swap them myself.

The cost difference it complete horse****. They are the exact same part with a few pins moved and a pot in one for position feedback. Truly a $0.05 part if that, it's criminal. If someone made replacement gears for in em they could sell them and you could swap em in for next to nothing. But they don't.

jrp1588

Someone needs to start making replacement gears in brass or aluminum like the headlights. I opened up the assembly, and replacement would be super simple.