I used a reman on an 86 Honda Accord back in the day, lasted a year. I was young and I was broke, and I was delivering pizzas with my car in the Houston area and not having AC was not an option. At that time I had only lived in Texas for about 2 years after growing up in the Pacific NW, and me and the heat were not getting along. Talking R-12 days, early 90s.
Replaced with OEM becaue the price had dropped in half in the year since I replaced it the first time, no problems after that. Maybe that's when Nippondenso opened their US plant. IIRC the first replacement was in the summer of 1991 and the follow up replacement in the summer of 1992. I sold the car, I want to say in the fall of 1997 and the AC was stilll blowing cold with 258K miles.
FWIW the oem price in 1991 was $620 and in 1992 was $317 at the Honda dealer Russell and Smith on south Loop 610 in Houston. I jumped at the $317 price because another reman was going to be around $200 and I had not spent all my money on from the previous summer on beer during the school year.
[edit 2] replaced the receiver dryer both times but never the expansion valve.