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Old 04-18-2016, 08:46 AM   #9 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by cherniydiavel View Post
They're not perfect. Sometimes they are upset about what I ask them to do… for example, last year when I took the 'Vic to get its transmission flushed, they made me sign a waiver removing their liability if the procedure were to destroy the transmission!

Also, once a service writer told me my "carburetors were out of adjustment" and it would be an up charge to work on such an old car, about 300 bucks out the door. I told him my car was fuel injected and simply needed the oil change I asked for lol!
It's not uncommon for that to happen in an abused car after a flush. If the car was maintained it's OK though.

As for the "Carbutertor" thing, could be human error. Old G.M. wagons of the same year still had carburetors (Did the Sedans have them too?) though Ford switched over to fuel injection in the 1983 model year.
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