In a message dated 8/24/99 1:04:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
davidr@sunset.net writes:
<< This "We Cheap" stuff is really starting to bug me. Why not just go to the
local little guy muffler shop >>
David:
I agree to an extent. I know the muffler shop guy is there and can go spend
the $20 or so to get something like that fixed. But I enjoy the cheap
"fixes" because I never know when I am going to be out on the road and have a
problem one of these ingenious cheapies might fix for me. At least enough to
get me home and then to the muffler shop. Beer cans and clamps are a lot
easier to find than a muffler shop in the Mountains of East Tennessee on a
Saturday night. I carry, wrapped around the center windshield post, a length
of wire I stripped out of a bread wrapper. A couple of times my headlight
switch went South at night--I found by wrapping the wire around the three
contacts my headlights would work. I installed a new switch, but the "we
cheap" fix got me safely home and through the period when the switch didnt
work. In the big picture I agree--fix it right--but in the smaller picture,
I think drivers of these aggravation-prone cars need to know cheap and simple
"fixes" to get us home at times.
Just my loose change!! 8^)
--David C.
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