Method of doing business
A seal kit for vehicle air conditioning systems and associated methods are provided. The seal kit includes a container and a set of a plurality of retrofit seals positioned in the container and adapted to retrofit a set of a plurality of existing seals of any one preselected group of different vehicle air conditioning systems corresponding to a preselected group of different vehicles. The seal kit simplifies and shortens the selling cycle by condensing multiple similar vehicles' seal requirements into kits allowing the ready identification of system seals by year, make, model, and when applicable, engine type. The condensing of individual components or seals into kits also allows reduction of inventory. The identification by year, make, model, and engine type speeds the selling process by quickly identifying the necessary kit and allowing one kit to be sold instead of multiple components or seals.
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32 . A method of doing business, the method comprising providing by use of a computer a container having a set of a plurality seals needed to retrofit a set of a plurality of seals of only one air conditioning system of a plurality of different air conditioning systems of a plurality of vehicles, a total number of seals in the set of the plurality of seals being less than the total combined number of seals needed to retrofit a set of the plurality of seals of the plurality of air conditioning systems of the plurality of vehicles and greater than a set of the plurality of seals of only one of the plurality of air conditioning systems of the plurality of vehicles, the combination of the container and the set of the plurality of seals contained therein defining a seal kit.
33 . A method as defined in claim 32 , further comprising providing a plurality of the seal kits, each of the plurality of seal kits having a different set of a plurality of seals needed to retrofit a preselected group of seals to make system fluid connections in the only one air conditioning system of a different plurality of different air conditioning systems, and selling the plurality of seal kits to a distributor of vehicle component parts
34 . A method as defined in claim 33 , wherein each the plurality of seal kits has an indicator associated therewith to indicate a plurality of makes and models of vehicles to which the plurality of seals operatively retrofit a corresponding air conditioning system thereof.
35 . A method as defined in claim 34 , further comprising storing the plurality of seal kits at a distributor facility of the distributor, identifying a user's desire for a replacement of at least one seal of an air conditioning system of a particular make and model of a vehicle, selecting one of the plurality of seal kits that indicates the particular make and model of the vehicle, and distributing the selected one of the plurality of seal kits to the user from the distributor facility.
36 . A method as defined in claim 32 , further comprising providing a plurality of the seal kits, each of the plurality of seal kits having a different set of a plurality of seals and having an indicator associated therewith to indicate a plurality of makes and models of vehicles to which the plurality of seals operatively retrofit a corresponding air conditioning system thereof, identifying a user's desire for a replacement of at least one seal of an air conditioning system of a particular make and model of a vehicle, selecting one of the plurality of seal kits that indicates the particular make and model of the vehicle, and distributing the selected one of the plurality of seal kits to the user.
37 . A method as defined in claim 32 , further comprising providing a plurality of the seal kits, storing the plurality of seals kits at a selected location, and distributing the plurality of seal kits, and wherein at least two of the plurality of seals of the set of each of the plurality of seal kits have different shaped outer perimeters.
38 . A method of doing business, the method comprising:
providing a seal kit having at least one replacement seal contained therein as one of a set of a plurality of seals in the seal kit needed to make system fluid connections in a vehicle air conditioning system, the seal kit being associated with a computer having an indication of at least one of a plurality of vehicles having the vehicle air conditioning system associated therewith to thereby reduce the amount of time needed to select the at least one replacement seal for the vehicle air conditioning system of a particular vehicle.
39 . A method as defined in claim 38 , wherein the seal kit includes a container having a set of a plurality seals needed to retrofit a set of a plurality of existing seals of only one air conditioning system of a plurality of vehicle air conditioning systems of the plurality of vehicles, the total number of seals in the set of the plurality of seals being less than the total combined number of existing seals needed to retrofit a set of the plurality of existing seals of all of the air conditioning systems of all of the plurality of vehicles and greater than a set of the plurality of seals of only one of the air conditioning systems of the plurality of vehicles.
40 . A method as defined in claim 38 , further comprising providing a plurality of each of seal kit and distributing the plurality of the seal kits, each of the plurality of seal kits having a different set of a plurality of seals therein and having an indicator associated therewith to indicate a plurality of makes and models of vehicles to which the plurality of seals operatively retrofit system fluid connections of a corresponding air conditioning system thereof, identifying a user's desire for a replacement of at least one seal of an air conditioning system of a particular make and model of a vehicle to thereby define the at least one replacement seal, selecting one of the plurality of seal kits that indicates the particular make and model of the vehicle, and distributing the selected one of the plurality of seal kits to the user.
41 . A method as defined in claim 40 , further comprising storing the plurality of seal kits at a selected location to thereby reduce the amount of inventory of seals needed for distributing.
42 . A method of doing business comprising:
identifying at least one component of a vehicle air conditioning system; and
linking a seal kit to the at least one component by use of a computer so that the seal kit can be offered for sale with the at least one component.
43 . A method as defined in claim 42 , further comprising offering the linked seal kit for sell to a potential purchaser of the at least one component and selling the linked seal kit and the at least one component to the potential purchaser so that the potential purchaser defines an actual purchaser.