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   From: NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com   
      
   This series of posts by me, all at once, was unintended.  When i was in   
   Guatamala, I posted but if I also sent the post out by email, the emails   
   didn't actually go.  I was trying to find and send them one at a time,   
   but instead someone gave me a suggestion and it sent all of them at once   
   and somehow posted some usenet posts too.  So far, I'm not ashamed of   
   any of them.  This one clearly wasn't finished yet, so I'm going to   
   finish it bellow.   
      
   In alt.home.repair, on Mon, 29 Jan 2024 19:48:41 -0500, micky   
    wrote:   
      
   >My step-nephew (Is there such a thing?) has several irons in the fire,   
   >including buying salvage cars and fixing them up. That is, paying a shop   
   >to fix them up.   He trusts them to do it right because his own mother   
   >is driving one of them.   
   >   
   >A Jeep.  Not a WWII jeep like a jeep should be, but a car of some sort.   
   >   
   >The steering locks up, and by golly there was a recall on that year and   
   >model for bad rack and pinion.   
   >   
   >However when   
      
   When the Jeep dealer was called, he looked up the VIN and since it   
   wasn't listed, he said "No free repair".   
      
   If the VIN isn't listed as a car that deserves a free repair, but it   
   clearly has a bad rack and pinion, doesn't that mean that either the   
   records got messed  up and it never got the repair it was entitled to,   
   even though it's not on the list,  OR maybe it was repaired and they   
   used one of the first set of bad rack and pinions, so the new one was no   
   good either.   Is there a third possibility?   
      
   What are the chances she can convince them to fix it under the recall?   
   How would yu go asbout doing this?   
      
   (I realize now that I didn't post this, because I was going to loook the   
   car up in Carfax or Bumper.   
      
   Carfax is no longer free; it's not even cheap.   
      
   Does anyone know anything about Bumper.  Is its information as complete   
   as Carfax?  How could that be?   
      
   Also they have a two-level introductory price, iirc $2 and $10.  What is   
   the difference?  .... Maybe they've gotten rid of that in the last 3   
   weeks.  Now it's $1 for 7 days.  I have to find the vin, in my suitcase   
   somewhere.   
      
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