Re: alfa-digest V7 #1009

[Pottree@domain.elided]

In a message dated 08/31/1999 6:45:38 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
owner-alfa-digest@domain.elided writes:

<< it seems to me that the plastic material of spider dashboard
     outer surfaces is succeptible to damage from cold temperatures
     or at the very least to damage from any contact with it at low
     temperatures, the stuff just gets really brittle particularly
     below 10 deg.F..    i've got some cracks but can see no point
     in replacing it unless i move way south, or global warming
     accelerates tremendously (or i start storing the car for the
     winter, in the house).
     jak    '74 spider   '91 164L
  >>


Do not fool yourself.  Here in the City of the Angels, it seems the dash 
material on spiders (and GTV6s and others, too) cracks from exposure to high 
heat when parked in sunlight.

Charlie

LA, CA, USA

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