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Re: Japanese cars and reliability...
This is simply a commone sens arguement. Foreign cars compared to domestics, and which one can go longer without an oil change. Nothing against anyone, but if you don't change your oil at the MOST ever 6k miles, you're running a risk of blowing it up, whether its a Ford Pinto or a Toyota Tacoma. Only reason why I like American Big 3 cars and trucks is because they are made here, by union workers. There are some that say that union workers are making sub-par cars and trucks, but the best transmission in the world is made in the USA, by union workers, known as the Allison transmission. THAT is the most indestructable object known to man. When I do get the money, im planning on a GMC 2500 with an Allison 1000 tranny.
If you feel that abusing a car to death is a way to gauge the durability of the vehicle, then by all means do what you have to do. Im just saying that if you keep with the preventative maintenence i.e. oil changes, fuel filters, sparkplugs, you will have a vehicle that will last a long time, regardless who makes it. Its really just common sense. With the price of cars and trucks being what they are now, why would you want to risk missing on some easy and cheap preventative maintenence?
I have a Monte Carlo that is roughly 13 years old, and has had all sorts of goofy problems. Ball joint failure, battery cable failure, lower intake air leak, alternator went out, probably only $1000 worth of major repairs done to it, and only $1000 because quality parts are inexpensive to come across for a domestic, compared to a foreign car. The Monte has 105k on it, I had it since it had 48k.
BTW, LD, it can be somewhat common to have a vehicle over 1 million miles. I knew several couriers who had '85 and '87 Chevy Vans with over 1 million, and only have to replace the occaisional starter or alternator, which was cake on a van. They easily put 200 miles a day on these things going from Illinois to Ohio in the same day.
Just take care of your car the way the manufacturer says, and this really becomes a mute point. If you're a lazy *** who doesn't want to do that, then you deserve a broken down car.
This is simply a commone sens arguement. Foreign cars compared to domestics, and which one can go longer without an oil change. Nothing against anyone, but if you don't change your oil at the MOST ever 6k miles, you're running a risk of blowing it up, whether its a Ford Pinto or a Toyota Tacoma. Only reason why I like American Big 3 cars and trucks is because they are made here, by union workers. There are some that say that union workers are making sub-par cars and trucks, but the best transmission in the world is made in the USA, by union workers, known as the Allison transmission. THAT is the most indestructable object known to man. When I do get the money, im planning on a GMC 2500 with an Allison 1000 tranny.
If you feel that abusing a car to death is a way to gauge the durability of the vehicle, then by all means do what you have to do. Im just saying that if you keep with the preventative maintenence i.e. oil changes, fuel filters, sparkplugs, you will have a vehicle that will last a long time, regardless who makes it. Its really just common sense. With the price of cars and trucks being what they are now, why would you want to risk missing on some easy and cheap preventative maintenence?
I have a Monte Carlo that is roughly 13 years old, and has had all sorts of goofy problems. Ball joint failure, battery cable failure, lower intake air leak, alternator went out, probably only $1000 worth of major repairs done to it, and only $1000 because quality parts are inexpensive to come across for a domestic, compared to a foreign car. The Monte has 105k on it, I had it since it had 48k.
BTW, LD, it can be somewhat common to have a vehicle over 1 million miles. I knew several couriers who had '85 and '87 Chevy Vans with over 1 million, and only have to replace the occaisional starter or alternator, which was cake on a van. They easily put 200 miles a day on these things going from Illinois to Ohio in the same day.
Just take care of your car the way the manufacturer says, and this really becomes a mute point. If you're a lazy *** who doesn't want to do that, then you deserve a broken down car.
seems to me everyone agrees for a change...
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