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Article #11187Re: Car question - Is this for real?
From: Jeff Carpenter
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 00:00
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 00:00
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On Sun, 06 Apr 1997 12:34:13 -0500, debbie mulcahy <irdm@msg.ti.com>
wrote:
>I took my elderly (10 yr old) car in for an oil change last week. The
>fellow that was taking care of it told me that the car was making a
>clicking noise & that something was wrong with some bearings or
>something (gee, don't I know alot about mechanics!) and that he couldn't
>change the oil because it would ruin the engine. Since I'm pretty
>ignorant about cars, I don't know whether or not this is true. He
>immediately followed this info with the name of a nearby garage where
>his friend could fix it for me ("Ask for him by name since he's the only
>one who'll give you this special deal...etc.").
>
>Maybe he was just being nice & helpful, or maybe he was trying to send
>his friend some extra work. Any ideas if changing the oil might really
>wreck the engine?
I would simply take it to a couple of other places and ask them to
investigate the problem the first guy said you had.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 104ad1,8d745bea7b163bda X-Google-Attributes: gid104ad1,public X-Google-Thread: 107518,8d745bea7b163bda X-Google-Attributes: gid107518,public X-Google-Thread: 103916,8d745bea7b163bda X-Google-Attributes: gid103916,public From: jeffcarp@ibm.net (Jeff Carpenter) Subject: Re: Car question - Is this for real? Date: 1997/04/08 Message-ID: <3354acf0.8190115@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> X-Deja-AN: 231487977 References: <3347DE95.63B8@msg.ti.com> Organization: Des Moines, IA Reply-To: jeffcarp@usa.net Newsgroups: misc.consumers,dfw.general,tx.general