Bill, I should get the vehicle out of the shop today. You've pointed out
that this isn't an uncommon problem either.
I deliver baggage for the airlines to the customers and it would have
been a bad deal to have that fail in someone's drive at 0330 hours!!! LOL
"Bill Putney" <bptn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:62dd15F210vi3U1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Glenn O'Connor wrote:
>> Hi all. After having the heater core, and a front brake job done, which
>> was needed; the next thing is having the ****fter cable replaced on this
>> '99 Concorde.
>> When I picked up the auto, it was stiff, very stiff, to ****ft. I,
>> dumbly, retook possession of the "thing" for a few days. Well by the
next
>> week, during a 0F day, which we do get in MO, I returned it to the
shop.
>> My thinking something got kinked. Anyhoo, the ****fter cable's being
>> replaced for another $200+.
>> Oh well...:-/
>
> The stiffness of the corroded/stiff ****fter cable can be very
temperature
> dependent - tends to get stiffer the colder it is. The replacement
cable
> has been redesigned so that water doesn't get in and corrode it.
>
> Honestly I have trouble imagining how the cable could be damaged by the
> dealer. Plus - they do develop this problem - plus - when having the
> problem, they are much worse in the cold. And it did some sitting
during
> the previous work without being used in your normal routine.
>
> My bet is that when you get it back, you will be amazed at how *FREELY*
> the ****fter will be to move and will immediately realize that your cable
> was somewhat stiff before you took it in the first time (the problem was
> already starting).
>
> I have a '98 and a '99 Concorde - had to replace the ****fter cable on
> both. When I first replaced the cable on the '99, which had gotten
almost
> impossible to ****ft (actually I had been using it in its moderately
stiff
> condition for so long that the stress on the ****fter caused the ****fter
> pivot pin to break, so I had to replace the ****fter also), I saw how
truly
> freely it operated with a non-corroded cable. It was then that I
realized
> that the cable on the '98 was also somewhat stiff - not binding, but
> definitely took effort to move even though I erroneously had considered
it
> to be normal friction. That's when I replaced it too. Big difference.
>
> Bill Putney
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