Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/02/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]1975-1984 Volvos are prone to wiring rot. The wires in front, underneath the bottom pulley, and the wires under the intake manifold are notoriously prone to having their coverings disintegrate, and making contact. The last problem occurred to me in the middle of the Rockies. Lot of fun that was! sd On Feb 23, 2009, at 7:17 AM, H. Ball Arche wrote: > > Just out of curiousity, what automotive electrics do people think > have a generally high rate of reliability? > > My 91 toyota truck with 250K has behaved impeccably, but the '84 > Nissan I had had wiring that was poorly fitted and vulnerable to > corrosion, as I found out in the Kansas City airport long-term lot, > in a snowstorm and trying to get home from being gone a week. The > leads to the fuel pump (at the tank) had eaten away. > > > --- On Mon, 2/23/09, Marc James Small <marcsmall@comcast.net> wrote: > >> From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@comcast.net> >> Subject: [Leica] OT: Bosch is Junk >> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> >> Date: Monday, February 23, 2009, 2:03 AM >> At 12:23 AM 2/23/2009, Slobodan Dimitrov wrote: >>> I had a car where the battery was under the rear seat. >> Not a big deal. >>> The Bosch parts on my cars have always lasted longer >> than the stated >>> projection for service length. >> >> You are most blessed to have this experience. Bosch is >> famous for weird and early failure. Go to your local Torii >> and sacrificce a chicken for the grace you have been given. >> Bosch is junk. Worthless junk. Unreliable junk. Fly out >> here to reality-land and try to start my car. And then tell >> me that Bosch is anything but junk >> >> Marc >> >> >> >> msmall@aya.yale.edu >> Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir! >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more >> information > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information