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Lucas vs. GM alternator

To: "spridgets@autox.team.net" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Subject: Lucas vs. GM alternator
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 08:52:50 -0500
Organization: dovco
Take off, eh.
If the local parts houses had a new $30 Lucas alternator, I would not
have switched.



Trevor Boicey wrote:
>   Your points ring true, but I don't quite understand
> the conclusion becoming "throw in a GM alternator".
>
>   It's not like GM doesn't have the same mass of tradeoffs
> between perfection and economics that LUCAS does. Or
> should I say "whoever made that alternator for GM and
> won the contract based on competitive price-based
> bidding".
>
<snip>
>
>   Onto a more hostile topic...
<snip>
>
>   A thousand times over, an alternator is such a smaller
> deal than an engine, so this is more a random speech than
> attempt to be relevent to the current car situation. However,
> it still smacks of "Foreign is junk, get some good
> 'mericun stuff in there", which is a bit hard to take. ;>



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