I made a list of about a dozen companies from suggestions that I
received and own ideas that Peugeot can use. However, PSA is very
secretive about trivial things that other auto companies don't care to
keep secret and apparently loves to spread rumors of all sorts. There
are press leaks about all major negotiations, somethings there are
rumors (like now of some stupid entity buying up CompuServe). Because I
never heard any rumors of any negotiations taking place with any
potential industrial partner, I tend to think that the PSA has not
negotiatied anything with anybody and I suspect had never tried.
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Thank you all very much for your advise with my "vibration" problem. It
is not a problem anymore because my car (the bloodsucking vehicle, the
mechanical leach) is now almost kaputt. Here is what happened to me
three hours ago, I was driving on a public highway at a speed of 50 miles
per hour (if I drove faster my steering wheel would just fly off) with
two passengers, respectable gentlemen from Estonia who are visiting me
now. They were telling me what that anything made by the French is crap
(news travels fast!) and that I must buy a Mercedes-Benz or anything
else made in Germany while I was defending Peugeot, saying that they are
the best cars in the world and that Peugeot assembles their cars in the
North of France, and that there is a chance that some of the assembly
workers have German relatives and may be there is a chance at least some of
the bolts and srews were screwed in right. I was approaching exist when
suddenly the car started loosing power -- and I frantically tried shifting
gears, pressing buttons, pushing gas, etc. The car died. Now, le Patron, Lew
and Brian -- I may need your help!!!!!! We got stuck right on the exist ramp
and my Estonian friends (one in a business suit) were embarassed of course. I
was too. If you have ever visited Rhode Island, you know that the state is
populated by mutants of all sorts. They drive buy, scream from their cars, make
faces and generally act like ...well, Rhode Islanders. So I opened the hood
of the car and checked all the wires. Everything was fine. I got inside the
car and tried to start it -- starter worked but nothing happened as there
were no gas in the tank. Whole scene is taking place on a highway exist --
very embarassing. Then one of my passengers smelled gas, I smelled it
too, I got out of the car and realized that the vehicle stands in a
puddle of gasoline. I looked underneath and I saw pieces of my fuel pump
hanging from the botton of the car, ripped out and almost shred to pieces. I
did not hit any bumps before or anything like that. The fuel pump just fell
out. The car was finally towed. Nobody I know has ever seen anything
like that. I need a fuel pump for my 505. Does anybody know why would a
fuel pump fall off? Was this sort of torture planned into the vehicle or
is it a by-product of engineering excellence.
Eugene