Is there a reliablity problem with the Hemi?

Well you sure changed your tune. All you did was bitch about the avalon
before and praise the 300. What happened?!
"Art" > wrote in message
k.net...
> Having owned an Avalon and a 300M, I am always looking at Toyota and
> Chrysler newsgroups. Judging by the number of questions here and the
> number of questions on the Toyota groups, it sure looks like Chryslers
> have a lot more problems, or Toyota owners don't know how to use a
> computer.
>
>
> "Steve" > wrote in message
> ...
>> Joe wrote:
>>> General Schvantzkoph > wrote in
>>> news >>>>This month's Consumer Reports says that the V8 in the 300C is very
>>>>unreliable. I haven't had a single problem of any sort with my 300C
>>>>but I only have 8000 miles on it so it's a little early to tell. The
>>>>Hemi is a cast iron engine and it's working at a much smaller
>>>>percentage of it's maximum power then a small engine so I would have
>>>>thought it would be very reliable. Is there really a reliability issue
>>>>or is Consumer Reports wrong?
>>>
>>>
>>> Consumer Reports: New = Untested = Unreliable
>>
>> No, Consumer Reports: American = Unreliable
>>
>
>

I did not change my opinion at all. I still think the Avalon sucks and the
300M is a better car. However if one compares newsgroup posts, Chryslers
have more problems posted than Toyotas.


"jdoe" > wrote in message news:_djPf.10108$oL.4222@attbi_s71...
> Well you sure changed your tune. All you did was bitch about the avalon
> before and praise the 300. What happened?!
> "Art" > wrote in message
> k.net...
>> Having owned an Avalon and a 300M, I am always looking at Toyota and
>> Chrysler newsgroups. Judging by the number of questions here and the
>> number of questions on the Toyota groups, it sure looks like Chryslers
>> have a lot more problems, or Toyota owners don't know how to use a
>> computer.
>>
>>
>> "Steve" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> Joe wrote:
>>>> General Schvantzkoph > wrote in
>>>> news >>>>>This month's Consumer Reports says that the V8 in the 300C is very
>>>>>unreliable. I haven't had a single problem of any sort with my 300C
>>>>>but I only have 8000 miles on it so it's a little early to tell. The
>>>>>Hemi is a cast iron engine and it's working at a much smaller
>>>>>percentage of it's maximum power then a small engine so I would have
>>>>>thought it would be very reliable. Is there really a reliability issue
>>>>>or is Consumer Reports wrong?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Consumer Reports: New = Untested = Unreliable
>>>
>>> No, Consumer Reports: American = Unreliable
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

"Art" > wrote in message
ink.net...
> I did not change my opinion at all. I still think the Avalon sucks and
the
> 300M is a better car. However if one compares newsgroup posts, Chryslers
> have more problems posted than Toyotas.
>

Asuuming for a moment that this is a given there's many compelling
explanations of
why your seeing this. One obvious one is that when foreign makes fail, the
cost to
repair is a lot higher, as a result most foreign cars are going to go
permanently
out of service as soon as anything serious happens. by contrast domestics
are going to go through a number of repair sessions since the repair costs
are
lower.

What is really needed, and this would make a damn good thesis, is for some
enterprising graduate student to run a study of perhaps 4-5 average wrecking
yards and for all vehicles that come into the yard that come into it not
because
of wrecks but because they have stopped running and they aren't worth
repairing any longer, to survey the make and model and odometer reading.
Then they could put that data into a model along with the initial sale price
of
the vehicle, and figure out what the real TCO is for foreign vs domestic
cars. The same thing could be done with surveys of towed abandonded
vehicles.

Grad students write thesis of garbage analysis all the time, this isn't any
different, except that it would actually produce data people would want
to read, as opposed to useless trivia like the percentage of banannas
that go bad and get tossed instead of being eaten.

Ted