question - may have made a major boo boo... Was, now fishy cars

[Jim Jordan]

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>From: thejimrose [mailto:thejimrose at gmail.com] 
>Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 9:15 AM
>To: josh at spiny.com; geraintlloyd_qc at yahoo.ca; quattro at audifans.com
>Subject: Re: question - may have made a major boo boo...
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>just wanted to say a big thanks guys. this makes sense 
>actually.. the pass side suspension is really clean and shiny, 
>very little rust, and all the bolts broke super easy. the pass 
>side is all rusted to crap.
>hmm... maybe PO used the car to fish off of? so the rust seal 
>on the drivers side was holding it all together. its been 
>soaking in pb all night. should be better today.
>
>now that i think about it.. when i had the abs sensor rebuilt, 
>there was a ton of caked, dried dirt / mud / muck in the gap 
>between fender and liner at the front edge of the door.. the 
>drivers side of the car must have gotten flooded at some 
>point. thanks carfax! [useless p.o.s.].
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Finally, someone recognizes that Carfax is not the be all to end all.  BTW,
the thousands of flooded cars from the Gulf region ought to be reaching the
other parts of the country and there ought to be some real bargains out
there :-).  

Jim Jordan