Sinner Man
Shooter
- Jun 30, 2009
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I bought my 96 4cyl S-10 in 97 , it now has a little over 186,000 miles . I've had to replace a starter , alternator , tranny seals and the fan blade .
I figure this is routine type stuff and have been happy with the truck over all .
People confuse routine maitainance and consumables as quality issues.
I just had to change the OEM brake pads on the Wifey's Liberty wednesday, it has 37000mi on it with an agressive female driver behind the wheel, guess I should bitch and moan and swear to never buy a Jeep again! I think not!
The dust to dust report measures all of the energy that goes into producing, maintaining, and operating vehicles with the Prius worse than a Navigator. I compare my Cherokee Sport as similar to the Wrangler on cost and it rates very well, due mostly to the average useful lifespan. My RX8 does not fair very well and I can tell you from experience that you can watch the gas gauge go down while glancing at it.
This is something that I never realized until I met my wife. Almost everyone I knew before her drove a domestic vehicle (I don't remember too much bitching either). She had a Honduh and many of her friends drove other imports.
Most of the people that I knew did their own maintenance. The conversations that I heard amongst her friends indicated that their cars went to the dealer for everything.
Most of the people that I know that maintain anything rarely do it on the recommended schedule and it is much closer to "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". She as well as her friends followed the manual or the dealer suggested maintenance to a "tee" and thought nothing of the cost. Ex: After we were married, the dealer wanted over $2200 in preventative maint. on her 98 Accord. This was brakes, timing belt, all the seals on the front of the motor, water pump, and other assorted items.
The point being, the demographics of car buyers have been vastly different between domestic and import buyers. This is changing, but the situation has done the domestics no favors in long term reliability. The typical import buyer until the last few years didn't know what a spark plug was, what it did, or where it went. They didn't want to know or care what it cost. The domestic buyer often knew exactly that and had their own ideas about brand, when to change, do you really need to change them all, etc. I know many who have done their own maint. and had durability on par with any other vehicle. I also know many who take their domestics to the dealer for service and also get reliability/durability on par or above other vehicles. A Ford Explorer that was the second one ever built comes to mind. The truck had over 400k on it when the owner retired from the plant that it was built in. That was 7 years ago and he was leaving for a FL golf trip that afternoon when he picked up from the dealer for routine maintenance.
We should all take a lesson from your example. Maybe after your Father loses his pension, benefits and you realize that GM put the shirt on your back for a large part of your life you will see the error of your ways.
This is something that I never realized until I met my wife. Almost everyone I knew before her drove a domestic vehicle (I don't remember too much bitching either). She had a Honduh and many of her friends drove other imports.
Most of the people that I knew did their own maintenance. The conversations that I heard amongst her friends indicated that their cars went to the dealer for everything.
Most of the people that I know that maintain anything rarely do it on the recommended schedule and it is much closer to "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". She as well as her friends followed the manual or the dealer suggested maintenance to a "tee" and thought nothing of the cost. Ex: After we were married, the dealer wanted over $2200 in preventative maint. on her 98 Accord. This was brakes, timing belt, all the seals on the front of the motor, water pump, and other assorted items.
The point being, the demographics of car buyers have been vastly different between domestic and import buyers. This is changing, but the situation has done the domestics no favors in long term reliability. The typical import buyer until the last few years didn't know what a spark plug was, what it did, or where it went. They didn't want to know or care what it cost. The domestic buyer often knew exactly that and had their own ideas about brand, when to change, do you really need to change them all, etc. I know many who have done their own maint. and had durability on par with any other vehicle. I also know many who take their domestics to the dealer for service and also get reliability/durability on par or above other vehicles. A Ford Explorer that was the second one ever built comes to mind. The truck had over 400k on it when the owner retired from the plant that it was built in. That was 7 years ago and he was leaving for a FL golf trip that afternoon when he picked up from the dealer for routine maintenance.
they said my calipers had froze up on both side and something with the rear brakes had gotten so hot they pretty much welded themselves together,with what it cost to repair I could have bought a small car