Why would you ever conisder that in florida? Id never do it anyway unless it was a dedicated track car. Kiss the defroster good bye..and its hot. Wtf wants to be hot?
I've never owned a car where the ac didn't work..even my 85 200sx had a workin ac.
I lucked out and my parts car i bought had working ac so i swapped everything over. Turns out my compressor was leaking.have you priced a working condenser, compressor and evaporator lately