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Subject:Re: changing coolant
From:Backus, Brian G
Date:Thu, 2 Apr 1998 11:11:37 -0800

I've heard that a dealer will charge $100 to flush, change, and bleed
the system.  They must think that they have some miracle way of bleeding
the system.  I think not, I think they have way more over head and
higher expectations from the stockholders as to their rate of return.
Brian G. Backus

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> From:         Barbara Sutton[SMTP:bsutton@GLADSTONE.UOREGON.EDU]
> Reply To:     Barbara Sutton
> Sent:         Wednesday, April 01, 1998 5:59 PM
> To:   Vanagon@VANAGON.COM
> Subject:      Re: changing coolant
>
> George Jannini wrote:
> >
> > Dan, you asked:
> >
> > << Where do you live?  It cost me $100.00 to have the old coolant
> flushed
> > and new autobahn installed. >>
> >
> >    I just paid $30 for the same service in Atlanta.
> I paid $45 for the same thing last week.
> Cris.
> Eugene, OR.
> '91 Westie "Fafner"
> '65 Standard
>