Because I worked on them!
"S.S." > wrote in message
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> razz wrote:
>
> > We had it since brand new, bought in 86, got rid of that scrap pile in
91
> > with a 130 k's on the clock. started to rust out pretty bad to. All
routine
> > maintenance done by me ( worked for honda dealership at the time ). The
shop
> > was well stocked with vehicles in for repairs and tsb's all the time.
Same
> > as the Toyo shop across the lot from them at that time, no different
from a
> > ford or gm or chrysler shop. Had just as many cars going through the
doors
> > as any one else. And to this day, at the auto mall here in the city i
see
> > the shops full of cars, Toyo's, Honda's, Gm's Ford's, and so on. I see
no
> > difference in reliability or the number of occurances in these cars
than
> > from any others.
>
> Just curious, how do you know that ALL of those Hondas and Toyotas you saw
> in the shops were there for something other than regular maintenance (not
> counting TSB's and recalls)?
>
> Perhaps your Accord was a rare lemon? I still see a handful of late 80s
> Accords running today. A friend of mine put close to 500,000km on an '86
> Accord with very few non-routine problems. He ditched it in 2001 when the
> rust caught up with it, but the engine (carbureted) and auto tranny were
> still all original and good.
>
> Perhaps you have seen no difference in reliability, but I have.