SMOOTH ****FTING NOW!!! YAHOO!!! :-)
"Glenn O'Connor" <kf0ed@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:6%zwj.4791$Mh2.783@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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
>> (To reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my
>> address with the letter 'x')
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