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Volvo has lost a 21 year customer

posted by  TONY H on  Wed Nov 27 09:56 CST 2002
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Short story:
My wife (girlfriend at the time) back in the '80s had a '75 242. I did the maintenence on it and a few weeks after a tune up it ran crappy. Being young and new to fuel injection I sumized that "well, it's been tuned, must be something with this damn fuel injection". Off to the dealer. BY the way the car had just under 300000 miles on it.
I got a phone call "Well the engine is tired the compression is low if you want it to run right we have to do a rebuild". HOLD ON!!!! Don't touch it, I'll be right down. I get it home talk to my dad, he comes over and starts the car takes it for a spin. We start putting the old 'tune up' parts back in. OLd cap and rotor...take it for a ride. Nothing. Put the wires back in. BEAUTY!! The car was back! So, for one bad wire this VOLVO PROFESSIONAL was going to soak me for a complete rebuild. We sold the car in 1985 for $2000 less then what it was bought for brand new 10 years earlier with better then 300000 on it.
Don't trust dealers. They just aren't hungry enough to be honest.
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'75 Jeep CJ5 345Hp ChevyPwr and two motorcycles: it wasn't Volvos safety , it was Longevity that sold me






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New Volvo has lost a 21 year customer [700]
posted by  someone claiming to be Al  on Wed Nov 27 06:22 CST 2002 >
  • New ditto with steve
    posted by  Nate From Albuquerque subscriber  on Wed Nov 27 07:33 CST 2002 >
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    posted by  invar  on Wed Nov 27 07:43 CST 2002 >


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