RE: RE: Heater Core - Update

From: Bernd D. Ratsch (fasstdak@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Mar 30 2005 - 16:40:18 EST


Happens even with Aluminum radiators/heater cores. (Seen that happen on an
'04 Ram - .9v in the radiator - installed a ground strap from the radiator
to the body - .04-.05v).

- Bernd

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net
[mailto:owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net] On Behalf Of Rick Barnes
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 2:11 PM
To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
Subject: DML: RE: Heater Core - Update

Two dissimilar metals react against each other, (typically at the weld
points), and break down...thus a leaky core. Hence the invention of plastic
radiators and heater cores.

Rascal metalhead

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net
[mailto:owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net] On Behalf Of Josh Battles
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 2:19 PM
To: dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net
Subject: DML: Heater Core - Update

Well, thos morning I brought my dak into the dealer that replaced the heater
core last march to see if they'd replace it again for me and give me a break
since I'm only out of the 12mo warranty by 2 weeks. Well, the break they
were going to give me was 10% off of the parts. OMG YAY,
$5 off of a $50 part, STOP THE PRESSES!!! I was unimpressed and they
decided to drop the price from $780 to $600 for the job in hopes of winning
me over. I told them that I wasn't about to pay that much for something
that they should have been able to help me out a little more on and said
that for $500 total I'd have done it. They told me that they couldn't do
that so I had them bypass the heater core alltogether.
  The writer told me "but you won't have any heat!" So, now I'm driving
around with no heat, but it's not really that big of a deal, it's going to
be 70 degrees here for the next week or so.
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