BS - Wednesday, January 20, 1982 - North Shore News

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‘Omniisalemon’ |

“We
plaining they had to crawl
into their cars through their
rear hatch doors all winter
because the car doors were
frozen shut,” Wienberg said.

OTTAWA(UPC) -
Canada's Automobile
Protection Association,

prompted by complaints of
decomposing upholstery and
frozen doors, awarded its
1981 Lemon of the Year
Award recently to Chrysler's
Omni (Homzon) automobile.

The association’s Ottawa
director, David Wienberg.
said the Omm (Horizon).
which has 2 7 per cent of the
auto market, prompted one
of every 12 complaints made
to the APA last year

“The most bizarre
complaint was about
decomposing upholstery.”
Wienberg said “This
happened in mostly those
cars with bluc upholstery

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“It misted up the insides of
the windows and people
would be driving along with
their windshield wipers) on

trying to clean off the
windows
“Oncoming headlights

would diffuse the lights all
over the windows and the
dnver wouldn't be able to
see a thing.” he said “This
used to be a problem in the
1960s, but it's been out of
circulation since that time ~
The third most frequent
compiain. was about the
Omni car doors, he said

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“We had people calling in
to say they had broken door
handles off the Omnis trying
to get the car open ”

He said other persistent
complaints, “all un
solicited.” concerned
routine maintenance work

“Most cars need a valve
yob after 50.000 miles We
found thal SO per cent of the
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