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- From: philg@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Philip Greenspun)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos
- Subject: Re: Help! Ford service disaster!!!
- Date: 23 Nov 92 17:52:24
- Organization: M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Lab.
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- Message-ID: <PHILG.92Nov23175224@zug.ai.mit.edu>
- References: <1992Nov18.124122.2342@infonode.ingr.com> <PHILG.92Nov19190251@zug.ai.mit.edu>
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- In-reply-to: nau@ssesco.com's message of Fri, 20 Nov 1992 16:14:12 GMT
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- In article <By0vro.FpA@ssesco.com> nau@ssesco.com (William Nau) writes:
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- Forget form letters. Even calling them, they refused to release any
- information. I explained to them that they were required to by state
- law. They accused me of making that up.
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- This is a good point. Federal and (most) State law requires car
- companies to disclose known defects to owners of their cars (15 USC
- 1402 -- 15th volume of the United States Code, page 1402, in any law
- library).
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- Ford apparently does not believe in this law (they've acknowledged 192
- problems with Scorpios to the NHTSA, but none to me, an owner of which
- they are aware).
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- -- Philip Greenspun
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