Customer complaint: AC was not cold anymore.
Diagnose: clogged expansion valve.
Solution: complete AC job.
Work done: new AC compressor, new expansion valve, complete AC system flush, vacuum and recharge.

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Evaporator with the new expansion valve installed.

Here is the old expansion valve.

The center console and other adjacent parts had to come off in order to reach the evaporator.

AC lines already flushed ready to be installed.

Sometimes a simple job can turn into a nightmare! A stripped philips screw. A groove had to be cut with a dremel tool in order to be removed with a flat screwdriver.