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Re: jack slipped

To: Daniel Hussey <dan_hussey@email.msn.com>
Subject: Re: jack slipped
From: Huw Powell <audi@mediaone.net>
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 20:38:15 -0500
CC: ckrafft@olg.com, quattro list <quattro@audifans.com>
Organization: HUMAN Speakers
References: <003301bf49b8$c697a3e0$3e43153f@AF13XRX.rayovac.com>
Reply-To: one@humanspeakers.com
Sender: owner-quattro@audifans.com

> See!  I have been warning people about those damn Audi jacks for years.  No
> one listens.  I had one supporting my car as I was checking out my brakes a
> few years ago and the plastic support at the top snapped while I was
> underneath it!!!!  Scared the hell out of me and could have killed me. 

That would have been the jack's fault?  Agreed, they are lightweight and
a bit touchy, but they are for emergency use only.  Use a real jack to
raise the car and some REAL SUPPORT to keep it there before stickin'
youse head under it!  Less blood that way.

-- 
Huw Powell

http://www.humanspeakers.com/audi/

82 Audi Coupe; 84 4kq; 85 Coupe GT; 73 F250

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- Re: jack slipped
  - From: "Daniel Hussey" <dan_hussey@email.msn.com>

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