Edit: the dealer may have done a crap job when they last repaired it...they may thing 'ralphy is an idiot, we can prolly get him to pay $2800 and pay for our mistake'. One universal truth I have discovered over the last 30 years, customers think they can make decisions based on the 'facts' they alone uncover in conversations with mechanics/dealers/techs. As if careful analysis and wisdom will allow they to 'figure it out'. Sadly, with some places, they are being manipulated - and no amount of study nor understanding will get them out of their jam. Do not assume it isnt the compressor becuase they did it a year aog and it is under warranty.

In actual fact, a grenaded compressor that showers pieces in the system, followed by a piss-poor system cleaning is a PRIME way for a brand new compressor (or evap or whatever) to fail.

Here is where you are at a TOTAL disadvantage: the fox is guarding the hen house.... The shop may not have done an adeaute job. The currernt failure MAY be related to the old failure. (Or it might not) You will never get to the bottom with the dealer. (**I** might be able to, demand to know what they did, what pressures they are seeing, did they add UV before, where are they seeing it, etc etc) But if they are covering a failure from before it will be hard to know.


Anyway, find out where the leak is AND how they diagnosed it. Get that in wiring, before taking the car back