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> wrote in message ... > A car or other vehicle of the same make and model or a coffee pot or > vacuum cleaner,whatever. Through high school and college, I worked as a radio and TV repairman. These were the dark ages of electronics, in many cases, where printed circuits were being introduced and were very troublesome, picture tubes failed after 3-5 years, etc. Consumer Reports bragged on some of the sorriest crap to come down the pike. Maybe the styling was interesting, or the initial picture quality was okay, or some of the features were different from the rest, but the quality of some of their recommendations was purely manure. I have had doubts about CR from that time. They didnt seem to be doing the customer a service in those days. I hope it is better now. Some of my opinions about cars are based on my actual experience, not CR. And they are just opinions, but to me they are facts until proven different. I have never cared much for Fords, my classic 57 Thunderbird and my 66 Mustang being possible exceptions. I cant even rememeber, now, how the 57 rode in comparison with cars today. The 66 was good for a Ford, but I also remember that it had 'jitter' problems. I have owned a lot of GM cars, one American Motors, a couple of Passats, one Dodge van, two Fiats, plus the early Fords. There are good (and bad) things to be said about most of them. I have had more catastrophic failures with GM cars, and have bitched more about crappy and poorly thought out engineering on them, than any other car. I have often said that there must be a special place reserved in Hell for GM engineers. But in defense, I have also said that I had rather push a Buick that ride in a Ford. (strictly from the standpoint of ride and driver comfort.) To each his own. There is no easy answer. My next will be a Toyota Avalon, and my learning curve will continue, I guess. |
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> > Tell you what Boob, when you've got 20 years and 291K miles > on your Honduh, let us know. Just remember, the first time > you run into something at over 10mph, they'll write the damn > thing off... > > Boob? that isn't very nice... :~)> I SO wish the 'write the damn thing off' statement was true. Last summer I was hit in the driver's side door by a full-size late-model dodge truck. Didn't do a thing to the truck, but I wasn't feeling so good afterwards and neither was the car! They fixed it and I am still driving it. :~( bob z. |
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Nate Nagel > wrote:
> >He's got a point. But the truth is, I'd rather have a 50 year old >American car than a 10 year old American car. > >oh wait... I really do. I agree. BUT, I'd much rather have a 10 year old American car than a 25 year old American car. Things are getting better, even though for a while they really hit rock bottom. --scott (who traded the 50 year old American car in for a 25 year old German one) -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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My old buddy said his 1991 Chevrolet Lumina car has a V 6 engine and
about 115,000 miles on the car.Do those engines have overhead cam shafts? If so,I think it most likely needs a new cam belt on it.Is it relativley easy enough to change out that belt,or difficult? I believe (or I think so anyway) I can handle that job myself.I have never owned any vehicles which had overhead camshafts before. cuhulin |
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bob zee wrote:
> On Mar 1, 1:59 pm, Steve > wrote: > > >>At 59k miles, its not even broken in yet. The car I mentioned above >>currently has 247,000 miles on it. It's now had a few repairs, but >>nothing huge. Call me back in 10 years and tell me how that Honda is doing. > > > I will. You can guarantee it. While you are at it, give me your > phone number, your home address and your bank debit card number! > What do you consider a few repairs that are nothing huge? > > Only an idiot would give me that information! Some would say only an > idiot would buy an american car! > > bob z. > I leave it as an excercise to the reader to determine who is the idiot here... but it aint the guy driving the American car in this case. |
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On Mar 1, 2:18 pm, Ray > wrote:
> bob zee wrote: > > On Mar 1, 1:59 pm, Steve > wrote: > > >> At 59k miles, its not even broken in yet. The car I mentioned above > >> currently has 247,000 miles on it. It's now had a few repairs, but > >> nothing huge. Call me back in 10 years and tell me how that Honda is doing. > > > I will. You can guarantee it. While you are at it, give me your > > phone number, your home address and your bank debit card number! > > What do you consider a few repairs that are nothing huge? > > > Only an idiot would give me that information! Some would say only an > > idiot would buy an american car! > > > bob z. > > to quote George Carlin, some people are f*cking stupid. > > Buying a car based solely on reliability scores is like buying a house > based on square footage alone. > > I bought a Trans Am because I WANTED one. > I bought a Subaru wagon because I needed a family car with 4wd. > > Cost to buy, Cost to repair, Cost to insure are all parts of the car > ownership experience. So's utility and "grins-per-mile." > > And, fwiw, I'm stuck with the wife's old car as a winter beater until it > dies. It's a 90 Beretta with 150k miles, and the damn thing just won't > die. (I used to wish it would, now I'm hoping to make 200k miles on it.) > > I do wonder, who around here has the oldest/highest mileage vehicle that > they're still using as a semi-regular daily driver? I've read threads like this here before, and they quickly become emotional, just as this one has. I've always said that when the emotion train pulls into the station, the logic train is the first one to leave. I'm driving a 1995 Toyota T100 pickup that's currently showing 326K on the odometer. It still runs and drives very well. I also do my own maintenance. My experience with my son's 1990 Silverado and my wife's 1988 Plymouth minivan tells me that the Toyota is built better, and is waaaayy easier to work on than either one of those vehicles. Anyway, I've decided the T100 truck will be a project for me. I'm going to drive it until it literally won't go anymore just to see how long that will be. I have every confidence that i'll see a half million miles. > > - Show quoted text - |
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