Originally Posted by DanaCat

Can anyone please give me an idea of how long your A/C compressor and high pressure A/C hose is lasting (and whether its factory-installed or dealer installed aftermarket)? I have an 89 Nissan truck that I bought brand new. The truck came with a dealer installed aftermarket A/C system (instead of a factory installed A/C system ((I'll NEVER do that again!)), and within 5 years the compressor was rattling noisily and the expansion valve was stuck (1100.00 later I had working A/C again). At the truck age of 13, the high pressure hose went bad, and within a few months of that being repaired the newer compressor started it's rattling again. 18 months after that, the high pressure hose went bad again (267,000 miles on the truck at this point). It seems the only thing breaking on my Nissan is the aftermarket parts (Nissan won't put on genuine Nissan parts because it wasn't factory installed, the parts don't match ((why can't Nissan dealers install genuine Nissan A/C system parts in the first place, infringement on the factory workers' jobs ???))
Or is this average no matter who installed the A/C system, that I should be lucky i haven't had more problems with it?