08-04-2009, 11:13 PM
NeverMind wrote:
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Not to hijack, but I have a friend that is a car saleman. His big gripe is that from his experience, the cars he has been destroying are not POS vehicles, but vehicles he would love to sell or perhaps even have the government donate to a needy family that is really driving a POS. His real outlyer--he had a real little old lady car with only 32K miles that he had to pour the "magic potion" in to destroy the engine.
That doesn't make sense. The cars MUST be in running condition, NOT dead.
Yes, but the dealer must then destroy them. "...sodium silicate is the designated agent of death for cars surrendered under the federal cash-for-clunkers program. To receive government reimbursement, auto dealers who offer rebates on new cars in exchange for so-called clunkers must agree to "kill" the old models, using a method the government outlines in great detail in its 136-page manual for dealers: Drain the engine of oil and replace it with two quarts of a sodium-silicate solution."