# Price paid for car with no A/C vs broken A/C

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 8, 2013, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/price-paid-for-car-with-no-a-c-vs-broken-a-c/665756 "2013-08-08T23:09:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2013, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/price-paid-for-car-with-no-a-c-vs-broken-a-c/665756/1 "2013-08-08T23:09:07Z")

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The KBB value for our car, assuming it has no A/C installed, is about $5000. In fact, it does have A/C installed, but the A/C doesn’t blow cold air. (Not a problem with mere charge, but we’re not sure what the problem is.)

I would think the actual value of the car would be a little more than the value of the same car but with no A/C installed.

But I am afraid the actual value of the car may be a little _less_ than the value of the same car with no A/C installed, simply because of the psychological effect of the car having a part that is broken.

What do you think?

(BTW the car also has an inoperational radio installed, and I figure the same reasoning applies here as well.)

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**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2013, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/price-paid-for-car-with-no-a-c-vs-broken-a-c/665756/2 "2013-08-08T23:36:00Z")

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I would value it at the greater of:

1. $5k or
2. Value of car with working a/c MINUS price to fix your a/c.