Date:         Tue, 21 Mar 2000 17:46:25 -0600
Reply-To:     Ken Nelson <saamigammi2@EARTHLINK.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Ken Nelson <saamigammi2@EARTHLINK.NET>
Subject:      Re: Lamenting head gaskets
Comments: To: Stuart MacMillan <stuart@cobaltgroup.com>

> Automotive News estimates that Ford will spend over $200 million to
> placate owners of hundreds of thousands of vehicles with defective head
> gaskets.  There must be a serious design or manufacturing defect,
> because they aren't even attempting to fix the problem in many cases,
> they are instead offering owners up to $8000 towards the purchase of
> another Ford product.
Wow, They only offered me $4000 towards the purchase of a Mercury. >
> How many of you out there would take $8000 for your Westy on the
> purchase of a $40,000 Eurobago? That is $664/mo payment on the $32,000
> balance for five years.  That will buy a lot of new engines, tires,
> transmissions, toys, etc.
 I took the free head gasket job instead. For the same reason
Ken Nelson

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