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Post by silverdragon on Nov 13, 2014 10:14:12 GMT
This is a beyond repair ability myth....
SAND in the tank.
This is a genuine method of wrecking an engine, I know, because it outraged me.
At a certain Bus breakers yard, they bring in the old Bus, and you will never get parts from the engine, because prior to being delivered, the bus company (Manchester based who will remain nameless) has put Sand in the oil tank and run the engine hot until it ceases to function.
Just how they manage to do so without an oil filter was not divulged, but I suspect they used a blank filter with no filer medium in it?...
Why did it upset me?... because they do this to prevent anyone else buying the bus.
Many are just scrapped at end of life because it looks better to have new buses, old ones are still roadworthy.
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Post by the light works on Nov 13, 2014 15:24:33 GMT
This is a beyond repair ability myth.... SAND in the tank. This is a genuine method of wrecking an engine, I know, because it outraged me. At a certain Bus breakers yard, they bring in the old Bus, and you will never get parts from the engine, because prior to being delivered, the bus company (Manchester based who will remain nameless) has put Sand in the oil tank and run the engine hot until it ceases to function. Just how they manage to do so without an oil filter was not divulged, but I suspect they used a blank filter with no filer medium in it?... Why did it upset me?... because they do this to prevent anyone else buying the bus. Many are just scrapped at end of life because it looks better to have new buses, old ones are still roadworthy. I'm guessing what actually happens is the sand clogs the filter, and blocks oil flow to the engine - same as simply draining the oil. addendum: still kind of an obnoxious thing to do - and significantly devalues the used bus. |
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Post by watcher56 on Nov 14, 2014 4:11:05 GMT
Sounds like our "Cash for Clunkers" program. Our idiot administration wanted to jump start the auto industry, so they offered a subsidy to those trading in certain vehicles for new vehicles. Then they took these perfectly good trade-in vehicles, that if nothing else could have been used as junk yard part sources, and destroyed the engines. They added bleach to the crankcase and ran the engine until it seized.
While it did increase sales while it was in effect, it depressed sales for a number of years afterwards. Did I mention we have a bunch of idiots in Washington D.C.
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Post by the light works on Nov 14, 2014 5:29:25 GMT
Sounds like our "Cash for Clunkers" program. Our idiot administration wanted to jump start the auto industry, so they offered a subsidy to those trading in certain vehicles for new vehicles. Then they took these perfectly good trade-in vehicles, that if nothing else could have been used as junk yard part sources, and destroyed the engines. They added bleach to the crankcase and ran the engine until it seized. While it did increase sales while it was in effect, it depressed sales for a number of years afterwards. Did I mention we have a bunch of idiots in Washington D.C. to add to that - it was only good towards the purchase of a brand new car - so the ones whou would have created the most good, were excluded because they couldn't afford a new car. so instead of someone trading in a 14 MPG Chevy Caprice on a 20 MPG Toyota corolla, you had someone trading in a 20 MPG ford exploder on a 21 MPG Ford Even-Bigger-Than-A-Suburban. |
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Post by silverdragon on Nov 14, 2014 8:36:15 GMT
Sounds like our "Cash for Clunkers" program. Our idiot administration wanted to jump start the auto industry, so they offered a subsidy to those trading in certain vehicles for new vehicles. Then they took these perfectly good trade-in vehicles, that if nothing else could have been used as junk yard part sources, and destroyed the engines. They added bleach to the crankcase and ran the engine until it seized. While it did increase sales while it was in effect, it depressed sales for a number of years afterwards. Did I mention we have a bunch of idiots in Washington D.C. They did the same in UK. Not only did they destroy a few "Classic" cars, whats left were CRUSHED.... So no spare parts were taken..... Talk about a way to lower the useful life of a vehicle. ZERO recycling as well. The whole vehicle crushed as it is and sent to some foreign place to be melted down, some foreign place where they dont have the same strict zero emissions that burning off all the plastic and rubber that we do here in UK.... Some people used it to get a new car, whilst wrecking a perfectly good less than 5 yr old car. Thus the second hand market suffered. Twice. Because about now there are thousands of these cars they bought new being flooded onto the market as those people now want a new car..... Did I mention we HAD stupid people (Labour govt) in London?.... We still have... The wrong milliband telling us he is fit for Prime Minister?... If he gets in, next visit to europeland, he is getting thrown over the desk whilst the chancellor of germany whips him, and he will say thankyou afterwards.... |
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