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From: jlw@ariel.UUCP (J.WOOD)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: '81 SAAB axle problems...
Message-ID: <484@ariel.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 11-Oct-83 20:41:51 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 11 20:41:51 1983
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This really isn't a story about SAABs, how I love them,
even though there's many a saab story, but my wife had
a wreck in 1974 in her Mazda RX4 Wagon.  When we got the
estimate for the repair, the insurance adjuster mentioned
that there were a good supply of body clips for RX4s
available because during shipment a seaman had pumped
seawater into the hold of a whole shipment of RX4s.
Mazda had subsequently destroyed the engines of the
cars and sold the hulks for recycling.  Some unscrupulous
used car parts people had gotten hold of the cars and
were parting them out.  Would you want the front sheet-
metal for your car to have been soaked for days in sea-
water?  Needless to say we reported this to Mazda USA
and didn't take the insurance company up on its offer
for a repair.