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From: C. E. White on 9 Mar 2007 07:19 "dh" <dh(a)stargate.com> wrote in message news:45f0ae2d$1$16304$88260bb3(a)free.teranews.com... > "Scott in Florida" <askifyouwant(a)mindspring.net> wrote in message > news:1h00v2prqocrkb8hrl37ronhvrqlcc6v4k(a)4ax.com... >> On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 19:47:41 -0600, "dh" <dh(a)stargate.com> wrote: >>>My wife agrees with you. She guarantees it will be a cold day in >>>Hell >>>before another Ford graces our driveway. >>> >> Graces? >> >> You mean oil spots? >> -- >> >> Scott in Florida > > Well, now that you mention it, one of the problems with the Ford was > that it wasn't house-broken. It was piddling all over the floor of > the garage all the time. That was 10 days to mostly fix it. > > And I was just chatting with buddy who switched from GM to Honda > recently about this. Before we bought Toy-ondas, we thought oil > spots were an inevitable part of owning a car. It turns out that's > not true. My parents have lived in the same house since 1964. They have owned nothing but Fords. The only oil spots on the garage floor came from the $%)_&$ Toyota I owned. What a POS that was. Oh what a feeling. Moving Forward. Ed
From: Scott in Florida on 9 Mar 2007 11:18 On Thu, 8 Mar 2007 19:38:13 -0600, "dh" <dh(a)stargate.com> wrote: >"Scott in Florida" <askifyouwant(a)mindspring.net> wrote in message >news:1h00v2prqocrkb8hrl37ronhvrqlcc6v4k(a)4ax.com... >> On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 19:47:41 -0600, "dh" <dh(a)stargate.com> wrote: >>>My wife agrees with you. She guarantees it will be a cold day in Hell >>>before another Ford graces our driveway. >>> >> Graces? >> >> You mean oil spots? >> -- >> >> Scott in Florida > >Well, now that you mention it, one of the problems with the Ford was that it >wasn't house-broken. It was piddling all over the floor of the garage all >the time. That was 10 days to mostly fix it. > >And I was just chatting with buddy who switched from GM to Honda recently >about this. Before we bought Toy-ondas, we thought oil spots were an >inevitable part of owning a car. It turns out that's not true. LOL.... Yup it sure is nice not to have oil all over the drive way. Quality..... -- Scott in Florida
From: Scott in Florida on 9 Mar 2007 11:20 On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 07:19:18 -0500, "C. E. White" <cewhite3(a)removemindspring.com> wrote: > >"dh" <dh(a)stargate.com> wrote in message >news:45f0ae2d$1$16304$88260bb3(a)free.teranews.com... >> "Scott in Florida" <askifyouwant(a)mindspring.net> wrote in message >> news:1h00v2prqocrkb8hrl37ronhvrqlcc6v4k(a)4ax.com... >>> On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 19:47:41 -0600, "dh" <dh(a)stargate.com> wrote: >>>>My wife agrees with you. She guarantees it will be a cold day in >>>>Hell >>>>before another Ford graces our driveway. >>>> >>> Graces? >>> >>> You mean oil spots? >>> -- >>> >>> Scott in Florida >> >> Well, now that you mention it, one of the problems with the Ford was >> that it wasn't house-broken. It was piddling all over the floor of >> the garage all the time. That was 10 days to mostly fix it. >> >> And I was just chatting with buddy who switched from GM to Honda >> recently about this. Before we bought Toy-ondas, we thought oil >> spots were an inevitable part of owning a car. It turns out that's >> not true. > >My parents have lived in the same house since 1964. They have owned >nothing but Fords. The only oil spots on the garage floor came from >the $%)_&$ Toyota I owned. What a POS that was. Oh what a feeling. >Moving Forward. > >Ed > ROFL..... Ed it was your parents' Fords that put all that oil on the floor. -- Scott in Florida
From: C. E. White on 9 Mar 2007 17:13 "Scott in Florida" <askifyouwant(a)mindspring.net> wrote in message news:t923v2herikjfv1s8gh9s4a8viqkjg9mhm(a)4ax.com... > Ed it was your parents' Fords that put all that oil on the > floor. Nope. Not only did that POS Toyota mess up their garage floor, it messed mine up as well. I kept a piece of cardboard under it, but that was only a partial solution. I know it was just one Toyota, but it was lousy enough for ten. Ed
From: JoeSpareBedroom on 9 Mar 2007 17:14
"C. E. White" <cewhite(a)mindspring.com> wrote in message news:k_kIh.125722$_73.18921(a)newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net... > > "Scott in Florida" <askifyouwant(a)mindspring.net> wrote in message > news:t923v2herikjfv1s8gh9s4a8viqkjg9mhm(a)4ax.com... > >> Ed it was your parents' Fords that put all that oil on the >> floor. > > Nope. Not only did that POS Toyota mess up their garage floor, it messed > mine up as well. I kept a piece of cardboard under it, but that was only a > partial solution. I know it was just one Toyota, but it was lousy enough > for ten. > > Ed Did the expert mechanic bother to check for something as simple as filth around the oil pan hole, or try a 50 cent washer with the plug? |