Re: B.S. detector just burned out!

[Richard Beels <beels@technologist.com>]

Mine went off too, but how do you get them to admit it?  Can't do a FOIA
request with them, they're not the Feds...  :-(

Five feet tall?  Now that sets my BS detector off. <s>  Seems like an awful
waste of space. ???

At 08:18 AM 10/27/1998 ,  Mike Arman was inspired to say:
>  > 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.


Cheers,
	Richard
	88 90Q - K+N, new vac hoses, still gets 0.0 bar....
	88 Golf GTi - PRO Rally