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- From: philg@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Philip Greenspun)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos
- Subject: Re: Help! Ford service disaster!!!
- Date: 18 Nov 92 11:16:40
- Organization: M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Lab.
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- Message-ID: <PHILG.92Nov18111640@zug.ai.mit.edu>
- References: <1992Nov16.164222.18530@rtsg.mot.com>
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- In-reply-to: pacyga@rtsg.mot.com's message of Mon, 16 Nov 1992 16:42:22 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.164222.18530@rtsg.mot.com> pacyga@rtsg.mot.com (Jim Pacyga) writes:
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- Now here is the stickler, they have had the car parked outside in the open
- (not the fenced in service parking lot) with the hood up and the engine on
- a set of wood hoists for any wanna be vandal to come and play with. To my
- best guess the car has probably been this way since last Wednesday (now Mon.).
-
- I have taken pictures which are currently being developed. I now have
- no faith whatsoever in the longevity of the car or for that matter the
- confidence in it to rely on it for a long trip since every possible vital
- part has been open to the weather and anybody else interested in it.
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- Is there anything I can do about this other than make threats?
-
- If anything ever goes wrong with your car in the future, you can
- demand that Ford and the dealership (their agent) pay and say that the
- problem was caused by their negligence (this assumes of course that
- the problem could have been caused by their leaving the engine
- compartment exposed).
-
- Another thing you can do is demand that they buy the car back, saying
- that you have lost confidence in it. If your loss of confidence is
- "reasonable" (a question of fact for a jury), they may have to buy the
- car back despite the fact that it "currently kind of works". If you
- look at Shepard's Causes of Action, volume 11, page 297 or so (a book
- on how to sue that you'll find in a law library), there is precedent
- where this theory was accepted by a court.
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- -- Philip Greenspun
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