Does all cars have both accumulator and receiver drier? or do they just have one or the other?

Asked by GuruHYK2T Jul 07, 2019 at 02:04 PM about the 2009 Saturn VUE XE V6 AWD

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They are both the same thing and those words are used interchangeably enough to confuse just about everybody. It's like hot dog and wiener. The accumulator is a black steel unit about 4" in diameter and maybe 10" long where liquid refrigerant collects just before passing through the orfice into the evaporator on your A/C system.

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