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Subject:Re: legitimate beef - water under the bridge - or just plain wrong
From:John Rodgers
Date:Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:45:56 -0500

Prol'ly a waste of time, but I would sure want the satisfaction of
"venting my spleen" on them!!

What accident/safety issues would come out of such mal-work??

John

On 8/18/2010 9:26 PM, Don Hanson wrote:
>    I'd call em on that.  If indeed you paid to have the lines replaced and
> they didn't actually do that all the way...they cheated you.  You wanna let
> people cheat you without even a comment?  I'd go back there and let them
> know that it maybe took some time, but you found out eventually  that they
> cheated you, and you are displeased with that...Maybe they will even care.
>    Don Hanson
>
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Mark<mbrush@gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> Not sure what to do about this one - eight years ago, I had my power
>> steering lines replaced by the dealer.  Now I've come to find out that they
>> only replaced part of the lines, they spliced in new lines in the back and
>> left the old lines in the front (using hose and clamps to connect the two -
>> I guess to avoid dropping the gas tank).  I assume those lines are supposed
>> to be continuous lines from back to front, but maybe I'm wrong (don't see a
>> diagram in power steering section of the Bentley).  The lines are now
>> leaking in the front and I feel like I'm circling back to a repair I
>> already
>> paid for.  I'm inclined to just let it go, since it's been so long, but if
>> it's an egregious error I think the dealer should at least know about it.
>> Or maybe it's not an error at all.
>>
>> Thanks for the thoughts -
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> --
>> Mark
>> 1990 Westy (2.1 - manual)
>>
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