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Re: Soliciting Recommendations on a used car...

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Mon, 20 Feb 17 9:57 PM | 61 view(s)
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De,
I am only stating what the technical problem is for that picture looking at it. I have no ideas of what the company's policies were for quality standards, but it is apparent that they were not enforced.

I have said it before, and no offense to anyone intended, but I purchased my last American made vehicle in 1996.
There is not a chance in HADES I would ever buy ANYTHING made by a Detroit car company.

Since then, I have lived blissfully without having to pay for sudden repairs to things you would not expect to have gone bad.

In fact, the last 240,000 miles I have not had a single repair bill that was not simply just routine maintenance items, and many of those I do myself.

It's refreshing not living at the service department after the three year or five year warranty expires.

One Chevrolet dealer here in Cincy has actually been offering "lifetime mechanical protection" on all new and used vehicles they sell. Must be a sign of desperation.... It certainly is not because those vehicles will not break down...


My brother in law has an old Lexus LS400 model. It has about 400,000 miles on it and NOTHING has ever gone wrong with it. He takes it to be checked out and has t he fluids and filters and belts changed as well as Brakes when needed, but it just runs as good as when it was new. Nicely made vehicle. Rxpensive, but nice. Paint is still good also.

It reflects on the company.

Yes it does. I have really enjoyed my last three vehicles, two from Hyundai and Kia, and one Mitsubishi Galant. ZERO problems ever. Except normal wear parts and fluids and filters.

That has been my experience.

But wowser, that paint job is horrid to say the least...




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Re: Soliciting Recommendations on a used car...
By: Decomposed
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Mon, 20 Feb 17 9:23 PM
Msg. 21141 of 47202

micro: 

re: "The PAINT itself may not be bad."

I'm sure you're right that it wouldn't cost anything to fix the problem. What does it mean, then, that even years later... when Geo is gone and only Toyota Corollas were still being sold... Corollas continued to have the paint problem? Was it just that Toyota didn't care, knowing that these were likely starter cars for many people, and once they were eight or nine years old the majority would be replaced anyway? Is it their belief that since it doesn't impact the Corolla's reliability rating, it doesn't matter?

It matters. It reflects on the company.

I see something similar in Chevrolets. Back in the day (1985) when my brother had a Corvette, he used to go on weekly tirades about how the car was nickle and diming him to death. One day, it was that a heater knob fell off. Another day it, the window's up and down button. At one point, there was something wrong with the acceleration pedal. Another time, the car's carpet started coming off.

The whole car was made of parts that didn't last. But they didn't affect the Corvette's ability to drive, and I guess that was the only thing that mattered to Chevrolet. At the time, they were bragging about all the improvements they'd made. True enough. Corvettes produced in the late '80s lasted a lot longer than their predecessors - but not without an endless stream of shop visits.

Today I own a Chevrolet Silverado. It's nine years old but only has 50,000 miles on it. I'm beginning to experience the same thing - problems galore that are simply AGE related. My left radio speaker went out. My left window button went out. My RIGHT speaker went out. (My guess is that water is able to get into the doors, causing corrosion.) My tire pressure sensors have failed. There's a charging problem where, if I drive a long time with the headlights and radio on (and I have to crank it up loud in order to get enough sound out of the dashboard speakers), the battery gradually drains (so every two months, I hook up a battery charger whether the truck is symptomatic or not.) These are all little things, but each will run me a few hundred dollars so I do without. They're aggravating and make me not want to buy American again.

And then there's THE BAILOUT - but I won't go there. Not today.
 



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