On Sun, 23 Jul 2017 12:14:06 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

On 7/23/2017 10:45 AM, Vic Smith wrote:
On Sun, 23 Jul 2017 14:00:04 +0000, Stormin' Norman wrote:

On Sun, 23 Jul 2017 09:32:49 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

On 7/23/2017 7:58 AM, Stormin' Norman wrote:


Engine by Mopar. Electrical by Lucas.
Are you sure it was a Dodge? Sounds like something you'd find on a
Jaguar.

Yup, Chrysler. In fact, I just remembered I owned a 1961 Plymouth
Valiant when I was stationed at MCAS Cherry Point. I was leaving the
base one afternoon in 1962 when the engine compartment started smoking
and just as I approached the front gate, it burst into flames. An
electrical fire.

I suppose there are a percentage of electrical problems with all makes
and models, but Chrysler sticks in my mind as being below average,
from an electrical perspective.

My son's wife-to-be had a '90's Chrysler - a Stratus if I remember right.
He was driving it one day when it went up in flames due to a power steering hose coming
loose. Burnt to the ground before the fire engines showed up.
She got a recall notice a couple weeks later for that "problem."


So then they fixed it under the recall?

No, the car was burned up. The village towed the hulk to a boneyard where it sat for 2
days at 75 bucks a day before my son learned about those charges and produced the title.
I believe Chrysler paid the boneyard fees. Big deal. The car was 9 or 10 years old.
He would have had to prove it was a manufacturer defect to get a little bit more, and he
just wanted to forget his wife-to-be once owned a Chrysler.