Help with air conditioning

[garfield81]

I have been seeing couple of things related to the air conditioning on my X and wanted your advice before I start working on it.

1.) For the past week the air conditioning takes a couple of minute to start blowing cold air when starting the car first thing in the morning. After that the air conditioning seems to work fine for the remainder of the day. Searching through the forums I found that this is possibly related to the compressor and the compressor might need replacing.

2.) During a long trip over the weekend the air conditioning suddenly stopped blowing cold air (it was cool but not cold) and fan speed on max wouldn't feel as it was blowing as much of air. After a stop over and shutting down and restarting the car everything seems to be normal. Searching for this on the forums it looks like I possibly need to recharge the air conditioner (which someone mentioned would indicate a leak since you never need to recharge). And for the fan speed it sounds like the FSR needs to be replaced.

All in all it looks like I potentially need a new compressor and/or recharge the air conditioner and a new FSR. So the question is should I be replacing them in a certain order like FSR first or recharge the system first to avoid replacing good parts?