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- From: bell@asdsun.larc.nasa.gov (John Bell)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: Saturn corrosive coolant rumor
- Date: 16 Oct 1992 18:20:51 GMT
- Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA USA
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- In article <1992Oct16.162433.5022@Arco.COM>, ericc@Arco.COM (Chang Eric(214)754-3562) writes:
- |> I just heard that Saturn pulled something like 5000 cars from their line
- |> due to the discovery that their cooling systems were filled with some
- |> kind of corrosive chemical. Is this true? What happened to the automobiles
- |> after they were pulled? Eric
- |>
-
- It is true, and they were all squashed to avoid the possibility of them ever
- being sold by accident, theft, etc.. I saw an aerial picture of them lined up
- to be squashed in the newspaper a couple of months back. Don't know if it was
- 5000 or not, though.
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- John Bell
- NASA Langley Research Center
- bell@haloe.larc.nasa.gov
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