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DL8OL > CARC 28.01.08 23:14l 130 Lines 5065 Bytes #999 (999) @ WW
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Subj: Re: Yes, but repair them and pay!
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From: DL8OL @ DB0ZDF.#RPL.DEU.EU (Klaus)
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>From: VK6BE@VK2TV.#MNC.NSW.AUS.OC
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>The prestige cars are all very well until it comes to (a) mechanical
>repairs and (b) a crash, when the owner has real cash to shell out.
>
>I was admiring a Jag outside a garage one day and the garage owner came
>out and after we talked for a while he said he had owned a Jag but got rid
>of it before it sent him bankrupt.
>
>In Australia when it comes to economical motoring and reasonable cost of
>reapirs the Big Three have it all over the imported cars. Holden, Ford and
>Toyota, made in OZ, have cheap parts, are reliable and economical and the
>repair of accident damage is far below the imported.
>
>My Ford Falcon has done 155 000 km with no repairs at all except brake
>pads on the front wheels and a couple of batteries (5 years for each), and
> the repairs of a minor bump which cost me $200, the insurance covering
>the rest.
>
> My son turned his Falcon in at 300 000 km. A taxi driver told me his
>Holden did 800 000 before he had to replace the engine; engines are
>cheaper to replace than to repair, and the replacement price for Holden
>and Ford is very reasonable.
>
>Imported prestige cars can have extra insurance levied on them, and the
>price of parts is high.
>
>American cars do not have the popularity here that they used to have. The
>price is high and they can drink the fuel as if it is going out of
>fashion.
>
> VWs? There are plenty to be seen but they are not cheap here. A car
>getting near the size of those of the Big Three cost well over $5000 more.
>
>
>There that should bring some sort of response I should think. I sit here
>and wait..... and wait .....
>
>Bob VK6BE.
Ha Bob,
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Hello friends around the globe
the topic car and especially the VW does not leave me, hi
It was one which was very easy to repair and I remember I have done it one day
with a scissor on the engine, hi
Most funny thing: (That was not only possible to VW) The belt for the generator
broke and the service man of the German Auto Association ADAC had solved the
problem with a stoking of my wife and I could make my way to the next service
station.
By the way the engine of the VW beetle was even build into portable fire
pumps.
One day we had a big fire over days on a waste disposal and in night one of
these pumps had to be refueled.
Tank was half empty as some one brough us "Jerry cans" but the operator did not
pay attention (tired!) and had put Diesel into it.
Oh dear! BUT the engine run and run and run. The exhaust pipe was red glowing
and we descided not to stop it because we did know well , we could not restart
it.
Believe me, it worked the whole nigth, obseverd by very scared fire fighter,
hi
Try that with such a modern car engine, grin
But now these days I saw an amazing car from India (TATA) which is concepted
for an extreme small amount of money I think it shall cost less 1000 Dollar.
It does not look bad, off course no extras like we know like air bags and air
condition etc but that is not wanted, just to make it affordable to the
ordinatry people..
But there is another danger: China tried to sell really not bad looking cars
into Germany.
Due to tests by the German Administration of Technical Safety as far as I am
informed they did not get permission to be selled here.
They became tested (any car has to undergo a test for certificate of being
safe) and in the crash test they failed so dramatically that it would be near a
suiccide to use it on he roads.
The same with a Chinese Four Wheeler, a hell of rubbish and danger like a wild
Rhino.
Technical standard today is a cat, biting in the own tail.
Without an electronical test setup you will be unable to do any on it!
Off course the very rigid regulation of "environmental pollution" does not
allow the good old procedure that you calibrate the carburator (as far as they
have one, hi) with the help of a 12 Volt bulb and a screw driver.
Often I think with some emotions to the Renault 4 which was the car I had as a
young student and later young Fire Fighter Recruit without a lot of money.
That was driving pure and fun, I tell you.
The seats had been like garden chairs, the exhaust pipe under the left mud wing
and if it became rotten you could change it within a half of hour (If the rusty
screws did not make you mad!!)
Some often I tend to ask:"Where are the good old days where things had been
much less complicated"
Once more to the topic "Gaz" for cars:
Just after the end of WW II I remember (must have been 10 years old)
lorries/trucks with an oven on the side.
We had no fuel in that time and they fed the oven with lumber and created gaz
which drove these lorries/trucks..
OK, however
have e good time, enjoy the trip with your cars and hope they do not fail in
dark night on a sunday far distant to a special workshop with a willing
workforce who like to help you quick - because today WE CANNOT DO IT ANY MORE
Klaus
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