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Article #365Re: Car Engine Advice
From: cobber
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:45
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:45
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It sounds like a good way for your dealer to make a fast buck to me. Just change the oil and the oil filter. If uncertain, ring RAC Technical Advice and talk to one of their mechanics about what your dealer is claiming. What make of car is it? "Paulmc" <DIE@SPAMMER.DIE.ii.net> wrote in message news:472ade4a$0$17204$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au... >I just picked up my 2 year old car from the dealership after a major >service. They now tell me that somewhere along the line, the oil has been >stuffed up > and has gone gluggy, lumpy, sludgy, whaterver > > And they say they *NEED* to clean it out of the engine, but it means > taking the engine apart and cleaning it out at a cost of over $1000 ... > > Can anyone tell me about this ? > > And any informaiton appreciated. > > Paul > > -- > My email address is > -... .. - -.-. .-.. --- ..- -.. > @ > .. .. -. . - .-.-.- -. . - .-.-.- .- ..-
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X-Google-Thread: 1056b9,8e10ea2c14e080a0 X-Google-Thread: 1083c4,c4b10ac065440317,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1056b9,gid1083c4,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!fu-berlin.de!newsfeed.iinet.net.au!newsfeed.iinet.net.au!per-qv1-newsstorage1.iinet.net.au!per-qv1-newsstorage1.iinet.net.au!per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au!not-for-mail From: "cobber" <geoff7772001@yahoo.com.au> Newsgroups: wa.general,aus.general References: <472ade4a$0$17204$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au> Subject: Re: Car Engine Advice Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 05:45:25 +0800 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Lines: 28 Message-ID: <472f80e9$0$23943$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: 124.169.178.186 X-Trace: 1194295529 per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au 23943 124.169.178.186