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- From: ken@wybbs.mi.org (Ken Jongsma)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos
- Subject: Re: Dodge Omni 89
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.011008.22606@wybbs.mi.org>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 01:10:08 GMT
- References: <1993Jan25.204552.17933@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> <1993Jan25.204924.18028@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> <1993Jan26.140351.26833@hubcap.clemson.
- Reply-To: jongsma@benzie.si.com
- Organization: Smiths Industries
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- michaet@hubcap.clemson.edu (michael dale townsend) writes:
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- >shaikh@ee470.ee.mcgill.ca (SHAIKH/AMIR/MR) writes:
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- >>I was wondering...it's rumored that the Dodge Omni series has
- >>starting trouble in winter...is this true???
-
- >>It is also said that the 89 model of this doesn't have starting troubles...
- >>can anybody confirm this??
-
-
- >One more data point:
- >My mom has an 89 Dodge Omni. She has never complained about starting
- >troubles, even in Winter. However, she lives in South Carolina (near
- >the coast), where it
- >gets below freezing about 20 days out of the year at most. The car is
- >fuel injected, and she keep it in a carport with the front and left side
- >of the car protected from wind. I don't know if that is completely
- >relevant or not, but I figured I'd tell you everything and let you draw
- >your own conclusions. It does burn a little bit of oil, though.
-
- I missed the beginning of this thread. Anyway, we've had an 89 Omni
- since 89. Garaged indoors, but the winters still get cold in Michigan.
- Never any problems...
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- Ken Jongsma jongsma@benzie.si.com
- Smiths Industries ken@wybbs.mi.org
- Grand Rapids, Michigan 73115.1041@compuserve.com
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