trane evaporator coil exposed

[jyro]

this coil is 5 years old, all Trane coils that aren't aluminum look like this after 5 years. Not just Trane either, it's an industry wide problem. Seems to be cheap galvanizing.
This is what an evaporator looks like with poor filtered air after 5 years, the air has to try and push through this dirt and lint. In one picture you can see the oil on the distributor tubes where the leak was. A new Trane coil is over $500 just for the part. It's exactly the same coil. I had to charge $750 installed.
Someone should start a class action suit against Trane for poor quality.

[aceman85turbo]

Thats what my G-E looks like, but mine is 15 years old

[fordracing19]

I didnt think anything could stop a Trane.

[machteck]

CHINA Junk?

[J&T's 82]

I am afraid that is what my Trane coil looks like after the morons who installed it for the previous owners put the primary and secondary drains where anybody over 125 lbs couldn't get to them. They also installed the coil to low and when the primary stopped up, the coil was basically sitting in a pan of water. Now I understand that R22 replacement coils are out of production and whatever is available is it. Keeping my fingers crossed that it will last a couple of more seasons.

[CobraChic]

So Im learning alot about Coils... with my calling around...

Is it a standard box coil or a slab coil?

Was it re-manufactured?

[jyro]

So Im learning alot about Coils... with my calling around...

Is it a standard box coil or a slab coil?

Was it re-manufactured?

The pan and sheetmetal is removed, on a trane unit it sits in a box at one end of the evaporator fan unit. A slab coil is like a 20" tall X 36" wide square, it also is in a sheet metal housing at either end of the blower.

Many brands have the coil inside the same housing as the blower (goodman, Rudd, Rheem,) they can be a slab or an A coil, there is also a coil shaped like a inverted W. No one sells remanufactured coils as far as I know.

post a picture of your outside unit with a closeup of the fins, when it shuts off, is the outside fan still running at the correct speed. When it's running and cooling, is the air blowing outside really hot or just warm. Could someone have put on a wrong speed fan motor?