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- From: omalley@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (John O'Malley)
- Subject: Re: Saturn Polymer Side Panels - How tough ??
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- Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
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- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 16:16:39 GMT
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- In article <Bx9F3I.53L@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> mshar@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Mike Mshar) writes:
- >
- > He had brought a Saturn door panel with him. During
- >the lecture, he threw the panel on the floor with the concave side down,
- >and jumped on the panel as hard as he could. When he got off of it and
- >picked it up, there was not a scratch on it.
- >
- >Anyway, I would not worry too much about dents and dings.
- >It would be good to here from someone who has owned one, though.
-
- When we were looking at Saturns, the dealer had a door panel in the
- showroom that was there for the same jumping, pounding, kicking, and
- bending demo ... except that the customers got to do it all. :-)
-
- Our Saturn is now 13 months old. It has one tiny chip on the hood (the
- hood, roof, and trunk panels steel; the sides are the polymer plastic;
- on the wagons the roof is also plastic) and one paint scratch on a door.
- A little touch-up paint handled both.
-
- As for the door chip, someone must've really hit that panel hard with
- a sharp corner of a metal door (or similar) ... those panels are very
- resilient. We have no dings or dents at all.
-
-
- -John ['92 Saturn SL2]
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- John O'Malley / User Services / Purdue University
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