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From: holforty@ihuxe.UUCP (Nancy L. Holforty)
Newsgroups: net.auto,net.consumers
Subject: Re: Muffler static (AAMCO rip-offs)
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Date: Thu, 22-Mar-84 15:21:33 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 22 15:21:33 1984
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Around 1970 some of the AAMCO dealers in central Illinois were advertising
free estimates.  The trick was that you brought your car in, they
tore it down, determined what the problem was, and gave you an estimate.
However, if you decided you could not afford it and wanted to look
further, they would point to your transmission sitting in pieces on
a bench and tell your to take your car and transmission home.  In order
to get them to put it back together, you had to authorize the repairs.
I think they eventually got in trouble for it, since the situation
only lasted for a year or two.