That's just why I don't like my wife to drive the MG.
She never would attent the oil pressure gauge, but she would react to an oil
presure lamp illuminating. O.K. when such a lamp goes on, something really
goes wrong, but what's worse......
Cheers,
Hans
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Breneman" <idcb@airborne.com>
To: <mgs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 9:38 PM
Subject: Re: What a weekend
> Hans Duinhoven SEZ -
> > LOL!
> >
> > No fuel gauge?
>
> Sometimes a gauge doesn't help. Way back when I was in high school,
> a friend's parents bought a Mercedes 300D. This was when Mercedes
> was really starting to make a push in the US in the mid 70s, and
> was finally being seen here as a luxury car, rather than just a
> weird car. Anyway, his dad took the car in for an oil change, and
> noticed when he picked it up that the oil pressure gauge wasn't
> working. So, grumbling about the expense of having to do this work
> on a so-called "reliable" car, he had the same garage replace the
> gauge. It still didn't work. Now he decided he was going bite the
> bullet (this guy makes Jack Benny look like a spendthrift) and take
> it to the dealership to have them put in a new gauge, complaining all
> the time about the incompetence of his cheapo garage. Before he got
> the car to the dealer, the engine seized.
>
> --
> David Breneman | "Just because something doesn't
> Distributed Systems S/W Analyst | do what you planned it to do
> Airborne Express, Inc. | doesn't mean it's useless."
> david.breneman@airborne.com | - Thomas Edison
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