B.S. detector just burned out!

[Mike Arman <armanmik@n-jcenter.com>]

> I've seen a dozen or so other cars of the same vintage and they
>all have the same markings.  When I purchased my car, I called AoA and they
>said I was the first person to ever call about the paint on cars of those
>years, offered no insight as to why it would happen (discounting the
>water-based before its time theory of mine), that there weren't any recalls
>for paint problems and 


Sorry, but my B.S. detector just went completely off-scale, emitted a
square smoke ring, and puked.


I once had a 1973 Dodge van - bought it new - one day after the warranty (a
year) expired, so did the brake master cylinder. Local dealer said go away,
zone rep made them change it.

After they changed the master cylinder, the service manager asked me to
come with him up front to sign that the work had been done. We walked down
a hall, he paused and unlocked a door, and threw the defective master
cylinder onto a pile of master cylinders at least FIVE FEET TALL, and then,
not realizing that I had seen into the room, said "Gee, we've never seen
that problem before!"

Sounds suspiciously to me like AoA is EXTREMELY aware of the paint problem
and is hoping you and everyone else will bite on their BS line that "we've
never seen that before, we have no idea what could cause it, no one has
ever complained before" and they hope you will go away quietly - which is
something I have *NEVER* been good at, and don't want to be.

One last comment about the "Yew Gonna Die, Boy" thread: A few years ago I
had a 300SEL up on blocks in my driveway for a brake job - I must live in a
classy neighborhood - the junk car on blocks in the front yard is a
MERCEDES! May it rust (not a typo) in peace.

Best Regards,

Mike Arman