[skeetie96]

My compressor made the same growling noise at about the same mileage. Took it to the stealer and they quoted $1500 for a new compressor. Took it to a local shop, they said it wasn’t too much of a growl and to not worry about it. Said when they start making a really loud noise or it stops working to bring it back. That was 4 years ago and I’m at about 201K now. Knock on wood, still works fine.

 

[skeetie96]

I am not a mechanic…. Just a DIYer. But I would think the answer to that would be dependent on what failed in the compressor. If it is a seized bearing and the thing locks up, you may have a broken serp belt if you can’t get it shut off in time. Or maybe it’s a failure of just compressing and it is able to spin freely, just not doing its job. Or the clutch fails to where it fails engaged or disengaged. Maybe some of the experts here can chime in to tell us the common types of failures on these compressors once they get noisy.