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Doug Miller Doug Miller is offline
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Default New scam?

In article , "dadiOH" wrote:
Jack wrote:
Oil change places used to come out and show you that your power
steering
fluid is dirty and you need to replace it. (scam)

A new one MIGHT be the "replace battery" scam? They show you your
battery measures: volts = 12.57V Measure CCA = 388 and Rating CCA =
600 (CCA is cold cranking amps)

I know the 12.57 is OK. Can anyone tell me if 388/600 calls for a new
battery?


No, because I can't read your damn light yellow type. I *could* if I wanted
to set "read all messages in plain text" but I don't.


Perhaps this wouldn't be a problem for you if you did either of the following
sensible things:
1) Use a real news client instead of Outhouse Express
2) Killfile anything coming from webtv.net on the grounds that only the
terminally clueless use webtv anyway