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Subject:Re: Faintly Van related/TDI
From:John Rodgers
Date:Mon, 12 Aug 2002 07:21:10 -0500

mike wrote:

> By the way only caught the sales guy in three errors/exagerations/b.s.
> Statements.  "I used to drive a diesel and they only need rebuilding after
> 1,000,000 miles" [Even with Cats the truck companies figure around 1/2 that
> I hear, but I could be wrong on that].

Mike, my brother-in-law has been a trucker for years and owns 7 tractors
himself. He traded all his rigs in on new ones when the manufacturers came out
with 1 million mile warranties on the engines and drive trains. A one million
mile warrenty is a pretty significant statement about the reliability of modern
truck engines.

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver hoping for two hundred thou....!