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To: Doohickey

I bought a new Pinto in 1971. In 11 months I had it back to Ford 13 times to attempt to get it to stop dieseling backwards when I shut it off. It would do this for up to 10 minutes at a time and the only way to stop it was to shut it off in gear. (I traded it off after 11 months, dumbest purchase I ever made.).


212 posted on 10/08/2006 8:03:45 PM PDT by phil1750 (Love like you've never been hurt;Dance like nobody's watching;PRAY like it's your last prayer)
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To: phil1750
...to attempt to get it to stop dieseling backwards when I shut it off. It would do this for up to 10 minutes at a time

Oh goodness, what an embarrassing problem! The chicks don't dig reverse dieseling.

When I hear stories like this, it makes me think that we're living in a golden age, car wise, at least as far as dependendability goes and in terms of just basic engineering competence. No car that you could go out and buy these days would have a crazy problem like dieseling in reverse for ten minutes.

249 posted on 10/08/2006 10:15:44 PM PDT by Yardstick
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