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Robin Banks ) wrote:
: Apparently they ran it too damned close to the exhaust manifold. Yesterday : the rubber softened enough to short to ground, causing ALL the cables to burn. : Battery to ground, battery to solenoid, the solenoid itself, and the solenoid : to starter. Nothing left but bare wired, and a nice hole melted in my NEW : damned 29N battery. The car stalled at an intersection, and a nice guy : offered to push me around to a driveway, then we noticed smoke coming from : under the hood. Wow, a few years ago I had the exact same thing happen to me with my '64 Skylark convertible. I had a shop replace the starter solenoid (a trusted place, had done a lot of work for me) and they rerouted the positive battery cable too close to the x-man. Sitting at a red light the car died. Took a few seconds for me to realize that (a) all electricals were dead and (b) there was acrid white smoke coming from underhood. Jumped out, popped the hood and was almost choked by the smoke and felt great heat. My thought was "if you gotta burn, burn up completely!" Thankfully like your case the damage was limited to the starting circuit, and in my case, the battery too. Shop made good for the cost plus the tow. But at the time it happened, what a scary moment! -- Greg Beaulieu Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada Olds List Admin Info: http://oldslist.oldsgmail.com |
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Robin Banks > had
writtennews:aruqm05cvkuhhpfg5ft4dbf013shhof1gp@4ax .com: > > I complained over the price they charged for the estimate and the > simple job of installing the starter-to-solenoid cable (which I > couldn't do myself due to my back), and they just sorta shrugged. > > If they'd expressed some interest in salvaging me as a customer > prior to this, perhaps I wouldn't spread the word. I feel they > had their chance though, and they just don't care. (or are > clueless... your choice.) > > > ~~R.Banks > Surprising in that case that they stay in business. They say a sucker is born every minute but not so in small communities. We had a tractor dealer in town who went bankrupt. Surprising that all the customers they kept cooling their heels didn't buy enough to keep them in business. Unfortunatly they had parts that requires a length search to find now. -- Barney __________________________________________________ ________ "I'm not into name calling. That's best left to the Morons and Idiots" |
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