Dealership wants $600 labor and $130 for a new core. Auto parts stores $30-35.
Considering it's my wife's car, and she has a lot of medical needs (traveling long distances to doctors), I have decided to fix it right.
As a matter of principle, I refuse to pay that type of money to the company that designed such an abomination.
So I bypassed the heater core for now, and I will do it when I have about 3 days to work on it. If it takes a Ford tech 7 hours it will take me 3 times that amount. I dread it!