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Re: The curse of Lucas jumping ship

To: Tab Julius <tab@penworks.com>
Subject: Re: The curse of Lucas jumping ship
From: Paul Root <proot@iaces.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 11:22:39 -0600
Actually, I've never had any electrical problems with my MG. I've only
had it a year and a half. Too much of that time in storage.


Tab Julius wrote:
> 
> On the bright side, have you tried the MG lately?  Maybe it was sort of 
> a "transference" and the MG acquired the Mazda system. :)
> 
> At 11:34 AM 11/18/02, Paul Root wrote:
> 
>> So, my poor old daily driver Mazda has been giving me fits
>> since about June. It was the ignition at first, new distributor
>> and coil, then it was stalling like fuel starvation, bucking
>> and all kinds of problems. I've had it in a local shop a number
>> of times. They looked and looked at the fuel injection, cleaned
>> adjusted, etc, etc. They finally threw up their hands on it.
>>
>> I dropped it at the dealer last night, and they looked at it
>> and called a few minutes ago.
>>
>> Bad contact in the ignition (relay, I think). No parts needed
>> just fix up the wires.  Like Paul says, 90% of fuel problems is
>> ignition.
>>
>> I think I'm parking the Mazda too close to the MG. :-) They
>> are nose to nose, with the MG in the garage and the Mazda
>> outside.
>>
>> I thought we were going to have to buy a new car, I was so
>> frustrated with the thing.
> 
> 
> 

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