Welcomes and ABS mechanic (1990)

[CLSPatents@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 9/10/2004 10:02:43 PM Eastern Standard Time, mailing-list-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 18:47:50 -0500
From: Brad Hogg <roadhogg@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: IML: Please WELCOME A New Member, Lou (1990)
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Welcome to the IML Lou.  What is the problem with your ABS?


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From: "Mike & Christine Trettin" <mtrettin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: IML: Please WELCOME A New Member, Lou (1990)


New Subscriber(s): Lou S
Email Address is: clspatents@xxxxxxx
Member Location: Motown

Car(s) owned: 1990

Self-Introduction: A troubled owner. Actually in search of a Metro-area
mechanic who can handle the Bosch ABS system competently and for a fair
price.

A big "ty" for the welcomes.

 

As for what's currently wrong with the Bosch ABS, it's in its typical state -- marginally-to-non-functional, that is.

 

I last saw the Imperial this afternoon on a flatbed being towed back to a Warren dealership (who shall remain nameless) whom I've just paid a pretty penny for front pads and rotors. Although they "serviced" the calipers ("shtupped" is more like it), apparently they didn't notice during this morning's road test that one of the calipers was frozen. No pull, no apparent drag (no overheating, either), but I smelled resin from the pad immediately and after a couple of miles on I-696 I saw a large cloud of smoke spewing from the wheel well when I pulled into my driveway.

 

I was looking for a suggestion for a mechanic to work on the system before heading to this particular dealer. Today's idiocy makes four-for-four screw-ups (three dealers and an ex-Chysler mechanic) on repairing the brakes over the last four years.

 

When I arrive in the underworld I plan to look up the bean-counter who decided to use Bosch instead of Bendix on thirteen hundred or so of the 1990's. (Same for the person who coined "merger of equals.")

 

Regards to all. Feel free to reply off-list with a mechanic's name. Thanks.

 

Lou