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DL8OL > CARS 28.01.08 23:17l 150 Lines 5374 Bytes #999 (999) @ WW
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Subj: Re^2: Yes, but repair them and pay!
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From: DL8OL @ DB0ZDF.#RPL.DEU.EU (Klaus)
To: CARS @ WW
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Sorry, I transferred the last one to a wrong adress (tired, hupps)
So here again!
>From: DL8OL @ DB0ZDF.#RPL.DEU.EU (Klaus)
>To: CARC @ WW
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>>From: VK6BE@VK2TV.#MNC.NSW.AUS.OC
>>To : CARS@WW
>>
>>
>>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,
>*****************************************************
>
>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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