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- From: berger@atropa (Mike Berger)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: Aerostar info (tuneups, etc)
- Message-ID: <Bsw1C4.q2@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 20:38:23 GMT
- References: <1992Aug12.001115.2073@donner.SanDiego.NCR.COM> <1992Aug12.062833.9430@mr.med.ge.com>
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- hinz@bonfire (David Hinz Mfg 4-6987) writes:
- >root@joncpc.Your.Domain.Here (0000-Admin(0000)) writes:
- >:
- >: Getting to the rear plugs is the most difficult, but can be done
- >: by removing the belts, radiator and heater hoses. I think the
- >: alternator had to come out also. I was replacing hoses and belts
- >: at the time anyway(about 80K miles at the time), so had to remove
- >: all that. Whole thing took 6 hrs or so.
- >:
- >What the hell was Ford thinking here? Don't they realize that people
- >are going to have to FIX these things & maintain them? What possible
- >justification can there be for making the plugs & other important bits
- >so inaccessable?
-
- >My sister had a Bronco II with the Cologne V6, there was one spark plug
- >that I never was able to change for her, as it would have involved
- >disassembling the car, or perhaps going in through the wheelwell, I don't
- >recall. Why can't they take the extra time & effort to make at least the
- >important bits accessable?
- *----
- Why blame Ford for this? Every GM car I ever owned had the same
- problem.
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- Mike Berger
- Department of Statistics, University of Illinois
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