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Re: Interesting fact when cars won't start

To: Windoseat@aol.com, triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Interesting fact when cars won't start
From: john donohoe <gt6driver@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 11:20:49 -0800 (PST)
Hey Greg, FWIW, My Honda's failure was due to an
electronics packed distributor... guess how much a new
one cost... $150? No $250? No $350? No. try $430 plus
$150 labor. (My Chevy Wagon's biggest expense was its
ECM "Brain" too.

Could buy a lot of LBC parts for that!!!!

Cheers,
John D

--- Windoseat@aol.com wrote:
> 
> Hey;
> 
> Didn't mean to start a techno-war with my offhand
> remark about the two car's 
> I've owned that experienced computer failure! Trevor
> took exception to my 
> unsubstantiated comment that 95% of the ignition
> problems in today's cars are 
> computer related. It was stated "tongue in cheek"
> just as Dick O'Kanes's 
> quote that "carburettor is a French word that
> means...leave it alone"  I'm 
> surprised we didn't get comments from Montreal about
> my lack of knowledeg 
> about the translation of French! It's called humor,
> irony and conversation. 
> 
> My GT6+ has an electronic ignition so I don't set
> points anymore. 
> 
> Greg Wolf

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