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Show The Salt I, tikc Tribune. Mi'iIih'mI.iv . May "A HGT Auto warranty problems are all service oriented By Leonard M Croupe Chicago Daily News Writer I just bought a new car I kept putting it off because I have heard so many stories of people having problems with their new cars. I coumn't help but feel I would better off living with the troubles of my old which at least 1 knew car about and could cope with My undoing was a pass I got to the auto show. Fell in love with one of the models I saw there and by the time I got home, I had already convinced myself that I had to have her. But I'm married, so I settled for a new car instead I'm earth throb This familys next newborn will be a first grandchild Bv Sandy Poulson in the maternity ward. All the other mothers seem to be 19 and having their first child. The has turned 3 official after more than eight years, we have no baby in the family. its nd now Fortunately, or unfortunate-lv- , the child maintains some He likes to be Jbabv ways. during some TV shows, "his speech is garbled when lies excited (about 11 hours. out of every 12) and he wets phis bed just often enough and I we have no plans to buy silk sheets or for that matter, a real bed. As the closest thing to a baby in the family, hell be sleeping in the baby bed til his frame or the beds yields. Would Be Ludicrous In the second place, theres that diaper pail, and in tne third place I have a photograph taken at a family picnic a few' weeks after the last child was born; it vividly brings back the fun and excitement of keeping a herd of small children within a one mile radius while square trying to find time and a soft place to sit to nurse a baby, change its pants and park it in a safe place, all on three hours sleep the previous night. I look at the photo and I feel almost cheerful knowing that the next baby I cuddle will be my grandchild. con-- ' still somewhat cerned over the specter of getting a lemon, but I have lost much of the fear as a result of an Dutch Uncle discussion of lemons 1 had with the dealer. A lemon is a citrus fruit, ' said Frank Mauro, a dealer, contending that most warranty problems are really service I'm almost conproblems. vinced. g Automobile manufacturers will go to almost any lengths to avoid the actual replacement of an unsatisfactory car. the They have to dread thought of what a precedent like that could lead to. I can understand their fear. Given Maintenance If a new car is given the maintenance it requires, Mauro says, there is hardly anything that can go wrong during the first year (or 12,000 miles) that can't be fixed under the warranty providing the servicing dealer will take the trouble to find out what the problem really is." Thats the rub. Many dealers like to slough off as much warranty service as they can because it's not as profitable as the work paid for by the customer at regular shop rates TiiO'e dealers contend the factory doesn't pay them enough for the warranty service they're expected to perform For instance, et's say a really unusual problem develops It may take a good man a long time to find out what's really wrong perhaps much more time than it will take him to fix it. Ordinarily, the factory will pay just for the fixing, not the diagnosing. That can lead to situations in which the customer is left high and drv with such explanations from the service department as Can't seem to locate the problem," when what's really meant is, "Can't afford to spend the time looking for it" Warranty Sen ice Disputes over what the pays its dealers for warranty service are an internal matter that should not be of concern to the customer. Certainly he should not have to bear the brunt of it. fae-tor- Wedding Ivie-Knudse- n Cynthia Marie Ivie and RobH. Knudsen were married May 23 in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. A reception was given at the Womens Council Cultural Lion Provo. The Center, House was setting for the wedding breakfast. The bride, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold J. Ivie. Kansas City, Kan., and formerly of Provo, is a graduate of ert Utah Technical College, Provo. The bridegroom, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence L. Knudstusen, Provo, is a dent at Brigham Young University pre-dent- . Car owners who feel they aren't getting satisfactory warranty service should complain to the factory service representative at the manufacturers district or one office. They're all listed in the Oivnlpus Downtown Fashion Place Valley Fair Ogden Provo Foothill owner's manual. You might also consider changing to a different dealer Don't let anyone toll you that you've got to take your car back to where you bought it for warranty service. 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Foothill syM Dont deal with an income Tax return preparer who wants to enter fictitious dependents 9pm ym Olympus Hills Downtown . & But my will is strong. For one thing, from the time my ,rst baby was born. I've always been the oldest mother ryid v $0 0 Its rather Mother nature is trying to trick me again, I know. There seem to be babies, dear, cuddly, soft little babies all over the place. I can't bring myself to give away the baby clothes, tained and torn though most of them are. and there's still a diaper pail in the basement, a drawtrful of diapers and a closet full of infant toys. is 1 1 |