I am a mechanical engineer with the car knowledge limited to the knowledge: that if i keep gas in my car, it goes. fortunately, i have had zero problems with my car until yesterday!

so anyway, I am having the dealer do my 60,000 mile tune-up on my 98 ford contour with the V6 and he says the Air Conditioning isn't working at all. something is wrong. well he is right, i tried running it the day before and got nothing.

BUT!
$95 just to have them check it out!!! that is very anger-inducing.

I don't know much about cars (this is my first car), as stated above, but, people are telling me that the AC should not die after 60,000 miles. Is this true? if so, has anyone else had a problem with theirs?

and say it is dead, and will cost all sorts of mon-ay to fix. do you know if this should/is/might be covered under some kinda warranty?

Thanks for any help!

confused

-s