WHITING, New Jersey (WABC) -- Air conditioning systems for your home can cost a lot of cold hard cash.

But they can also literally be a life-saver during our summer heat waves and worth every penny.

When a retired New Jersey couple paid tens of thousands of dollars for their new A/C unit they expected to live the cool life.

Instead, they got a steaming hot lemon.

When they couldn't get it fixed or their money back they called 7 On Your Side.

A mid-summer summer scorcher was not the time for the AC to have a meltdown at their Ocean County house, but conk out it did.

Leaving Larry and Anne Herring of Whiting, New Jersey, frying like fish in their own home.

"We didn't even put our stove on. We didn't eat anything cooked," Larry said.

It was measuring 91 degrees inside in the middle o

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