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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 22:44:04 -0400
From: "Alan S. Petrillo" <aspnopsamink.com>
Subject: Re: Picking your poison


"Roy Shroyer" <rshroyernopsamo.bae.lsu.edu> skribis > How about because it has higher quality, costs less to > maintain, and research will validate my claim that the Acura/Honda is more > reliable than just about any other vehicle on the road, including other > Japanese makes. I think it's running neck-and-neck with Toyota and Subaru. I used to drive a Toyota Tercel 4WD wagon. One of the reasons I bought it was that of three people I knew who had older Toyotas two of them were over 200,000 miles, and one of them was over 300,000 miles. They put a hundreds of thousands of miles digit on the odometer for a reason. They mean it. I swear that car was transdimentional! A friend of mine and I were in the video production business at that time doing construction documentation video for banks and real estate investors, and I could fit more stuff inside that car than I've seen go into some trucks! And I never got it stuck anywhere. The only reason I sold it was because of a couple of acts of stupidity on my part. Stupid act 1) I bought what they had on the lot, and it had an automatic transmission. Thus it was a gas hog. Stupid act 2) I joined the Army, and got posted to europe, where the car's fuel consumption would have made it prohibitively expensive to run. If I'd had the intelligence to buy the manual transmission version I'd still be driving that car today. I only had 3 maintenance problems with the car during the 5 years I had it, and the transmission was one of them. It happened the day I took the car home, and was due to a defective clamp on a tube which failed and spilled out all of my transmission fluid. The second one was the cracking of the A/C evaporator case. It was a defective injection molding which cracked on the sprue line. It was replaced under warranty. The third problem was after 3 years the A/C compressor broke. Now keep in mind, here in Florida we use the A/C for about 10 months out of the year, and our heat and _humidity_ really give it a workout. And the [expletive] I sold it to didn't maintain the transmission, which broke down and had to be replaced. And the same [expletive] let the timing belt break which ruined the engine. Much work later it is still on the road, though. It's amazing how we become emotionally attached to our cars. I haven't owned that car for 7 years now, and sometimes I still miss it. Like every time I have to drive through a Florida Frog Strangler. -- Aviation is more than a hobby. It is more than a job. It is more than a career. Aviation is a way of life. Processor cycles are a terrible thing to waste. www.distributed.net

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