This is my first review for the site. I bought this AC in 2007 and it has been used for 5 years already. This is the 6th Summer that it is serving for me and I am very happy with this AC. A year earlier I bought a Samsung AC and that gave a lot of problems like the Circuit board caught fire. I was lucky to notice it when it happened and it had to be replaced. This happened in the 2nd year itself, and it cost 5000 buck plus service charge to replace. The cooling of the Carrier AC is much more than the samsung one although both were 1.5 Ton.
This A/c worked without any problems and cooled very efficiently till 2011. Last year in August after running for almost 5 summers it gave in. The Gas had leaked and it needed to be recharged. It been working as good as new after the recharge. Its got a turbo mode that makes the cooling faster, there is an energy saving mode that actually does save energy and I really did not expect more from a less than 20000 product. To add to this the AC ran for 2 years in Delhi, 1 in Ghaziabad and it was in Noida that the leakage happened. I am told that the leakage is a problem in all noida due to the open drains. In Ghaziabad also all the drains were open and there was a lot of pollution. So that may have had to do with the leakage. To top it up I have been told when I went looking for a new AC this year that no matter what I buy, Hitachi / O General / LG .. it will leak. That is certain, the question is after 3 years or four.