Re: PN's

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In a message dated 3/3/99 7:47:04 AM Central Standard Time, quk@isham-
research.demon.co.uk writes:

> > Ok and she has an 800 number.  Dennis:  Question.  In the 5 years Phil has
>  > been doing the part number chases, how many you figure he's posted have 
>> been
>  > superceded?  So, how far back do we chase the archives to find those
PN's.
  
>  It happens.  I use the latest microfiche and ETKA, so the current
>  information isn't bad.

At some point (maybe tomorrow) it can be.  Think of what the superceded do for
search engines.  How far back does one go Phil.  And then, how do we purge the
old ones from the system.  Why would we want to?  Well because the search
engines have to go to those posts to try to find something else too.  Again,
it's YOUR cause.  Really not causing me to lose sleep.  Addressing the whack
on BD for his 40KB of violation.  When/if this list ever gets search archives
together, you come up as THE biggest violator to those searches, it's a
statistical thing.  For now, why not do the Subj: PN and reply Subj: RE:PN.
Then the archives can be saved and/or purged, and folks that find PN posts
useless, can easily purge them as well.  
  
>  There's another side to the coin.  Audi, for instance, no longer lists
>  repair kits to replace all of the locks on a specific car with a set
>  of lock cylinders that take the same key.  You _can_ still order them
>  this way, if only you know the number.

Not sure what that means.  The latest isn't good, or the older better.  I find
many reasons to use the old, and many reasons to use the new.  The above for
instance is throughout the audi line of PN's.  For the above, a BTDT on lock
cylinder R&R could help more than the above listing of the old PN.
Regurgitation of PN, old or new, is not a LIST function or post, IMO.  PN in
an R&R, PN that are documented as wrong, should have an address by car subject
or model.  I'm not setting up this list.  Check out the sites I posted Phil.
YOU have a vested interest in making this better.  EVERY single part chase
seems like a real waste of time, bandwidth, and YOUR money (since you pay to
read it twice).

  
>  In any case, ordering a superseded part will always cause automatic
>  substitution - but junkyards only know old numbers.
>  
Not necessarily.  Several here know both.  Several know neither (most I deal
with).  Several could care less ("that, it's 5 bux").  Junkyards are in the
business to sell the parts off the car.  They don't really care what the
thingamabob is.  

Scott Justusson