[SOLVED] OT: Engine failure Solved

Our car show, "Top Gear", reports that your cars can't go round corners. Is this true?

I question the use of "rear hinged" as though that's unusual. Aren't they all like that nowadays?

What annoys me is the flimsy catches they use. Why not have a proper one like the boot (trunk)?

In my case it was a Focus cutting out due to a poorly soldered connection on the instrument cluster (it contains the chip that controls immobilisation). It cut out in the 3rd lane of the M60 ... in the roadworks where there was no hard shoulder :(

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Nothing but Toyotas for me unless something unexpected hapens to their quality. Over the years people in my family have had all brands of 'American' cars and a few from out of the country. The Toyotas and one Datsun are the only ones that lasted without any problems to ammount to.

My dad thought Chevy was a good truck. He said the only thing that went wrong with it was the automatic transmission at about 35,000 miles. This truck was never used like a truck. ust driven on the streets and seldom had a load of over 300 pounds in it not counting the people.

I suppose one day the unions and other American greed will take over the Toyota plants in the US and their quality will go way down.

I just wish that we had a good local mechanic at a dealer. The ones at the local Toyota/Ford dealer are not very good. Had a good independant mechanic at one time, but he retired.

Which means you get free pickup.

And you can just drive between the cones to park.

That's a pretty s***ty fault.

I never ever use dealers. They charge 3 times as much.

On Fri, 20 Apr 2018 00:07:34 +0100, Terry Coombs wrot= e:

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On Fri, 20 Apr 2018 00:16:08 +0100, Terry Coombs wrot= e:

I've seen a car with 47K on the clock for =A3500, 12 years old,

Not a lot with cars.

As far as I'm concerned, oil lasts forever. And I own cars that are old= enough to burn oil, so they get topups of it anyway. If the oil isn't = flowing right, I get a warning light. If the oil is low, I get a warnin= g light. Every time I start my car it checks the level. If it's low it= tells me and gives me as bar graph of how low it is, so I know how much= to add.

If you're engine's that f***ed, just buy a new car.

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If it gets clogged, the flow reduces, and the warning light comes on.

It wasn't me that made the blown/stripped spark plug hole mentioned abov= e. But repairing that costs more than just buying another car.

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That makes a difference?

He said I would have scrapped it, I wouldn't as 118,000 is less than 135= ,000.

The warning light isn't on, so it's flowing ok. And it gets topped up w= hen it burns some, so it gets replaced gradually.

Why spend lots of money to save a bit of money? When it breaks, you buy= a new one. It's a machine not a pet.

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Be a while before I trust 'em enough to spend any money on 'em - that's for sure.

I'd buy another Chrysler long before I'd buy another GM.

Likely another FORD in my future unless I find a killer deal on a 'Yota or Hyndai/Kia. My current Taurus and Ranger are treating me very well, and my previous Mystique and Aerostars treated me wll other than body rust and a few electrical contacts.

My PT Cruiser andNew Yorker also treated me well.

The Pontiac Tran Sport was an unmitigated disaster.

I'd be driving 'Yotas too if they didn't hold their value so well.

I only drive used vehicles because I don't have money to burn. My last 'Yota was a 1981, back when I worked for the dealership. (bought it used too, not new) They've only gotten better since then.

A used Camry of the same age and mileage as my Taurus would have cost me double. Likely cost me about $500 less in repairs over the last 5 years (about all I've spent on the Ford). Not counting tires and brakes.

Generally speaking, dealerships that also sell american cars don't give you the service a single line import dealer does - at least that's what I've seen uphere in Canada.

When the GM dealer bought the Toyota and Mazda dealerships, the service went for a crap.

In the almost 6 years I've owned and driven the ranger, about 35000 miles, I've spent less than $200 on repairs - not counting tires and brakes and oil changes.. Put the brakes into the equation and I'm just over $500. ( I've also spent close to a grand on custom rims and tires)

That's a couple months payments on a new car.

A car with 80,000 miles on it (roughly 130000km) is a $10,000 car any day here, unless it's 10 years old. I bought the Taurus 10 years old with 54000Km on it for $6500. Six years later it's still worth $1500 or more. I bought the ranger 16 years old for $1500 plus a clutch - so $2400. In another 5 years it will likely still be worth between $750 and $1000.

When I bought my 88 New Yorker with 100,000 km on it at 6 years of age for $5500, I kept it for 12 years and 140,000km - and sold it with

Well, I change the oil with synthetic twice a year on both of my vehicles and at change time youcan still hardly see the oil on the stick - it's THAT clean.

Done it MANY times. Last one was on a Rotax 912 aircraft engine on a SeaRay. Top plug too.

And even if I had to pay to have my old cars maintained, it would still be cheaper than owning a new one. in 6 years on the Ranger the cost to have the repairs I've done - including the brakes (not counting the big brake mod) would have been under $2000, and the maintenance on the Taurus would have been less $2000 as well.

That's one month's car payment per year for each vehicle.

Not only not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but undoubtably the dullest - the daft scotsman couldn't maintain a kick-scooter, much less a bicycle.

Had the hood come up on a '66 Rambler American at about 35MPH and hit the brakes hard enough and fast enough to get it back down before it even sprung the hinges. THAT was luck

Had the bonnet on a VW 412 wagon come up at 80MPH. Hadn't been able to get the latch to release for several months and it chose to let go then --- Went straight up so fast I didn't even see it go - and it didn't touch the windsheild or the roof. Landed on the road a hundred feet os so behind me.

My brother had the bonnet of his Rover 2000TC go up too. Aluminum wrinkled up like tin-foil.