Posted on 09/23/2017 8:00:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
OM617 Best motor ever put in a passenger car. People get 400,000 miles before a rebuild. More if they want to rive something that might fail. Fishing trawlers use the OM617 where they start it up in March and turn it off in October.
All three Hyundai autos I've owned are still on the road. One with well north of 100,000 miles and it's over 10 years old. By the way, Hyundai actually means forward-looking. It's a real word in Korean.
I paid $100 for mine and drove it for 12 years. It was still running when I sold it.
Doesn’t anyone make a drivetrain, four wheels, seats, lights, and a heater anymore?
My 2002 has more gadgets than I need. My best car was a 1987, with crank windows and fingerpop locks. I was glad to have AC, but lived without it before and since.
If I could buy a new car like that one I wouldn’t need to hear much from a salescritter. “You only have it in puke green? I’ve had one of those before, too. Here’s the check, gimme the keys.”
It’s all in the branding and perception.
Meh, I do “tire pressure monitoring” once a week with this cool little device the size of a ball point pen. If it breaks I can get another for under $20. Last one to break did it during the Dubya admin.
but it worked didn’t it?
Shoot, some of us sometimes deliberately back up with the door open to get a better view on things.
Mine has the square stick that pops out.
I’ve owned two Kia’s, Hyundai’s twin.
they were both excellent cars.
I would buy either brand without hesitation.
Sometime before I got my DD214 a young troop bought one. First the radiator (plastic?) cracked in half, then I dunno what other weird thing went wrong with it. Kid showed up one day in a used Grand Am and joked his Kia had been KIA.
Well MY Mercedes was so old, Hitler drove it to the submarine races....the REAL submarine races.
***BAM***
(Try the veal)
From the company that sells hydrogen cars in the US.
It reminds me of a Riviera back in the late seventies that had all its controls other than steering, brakes and gas, on a touch screen low on the dash. I drove one once for my boss who owned it and refused to even get into it again.
A car I loved was an old Mercedes D, a 60s? model- maybe earlier. It was narrow so that only two could sit on the back seat. I borrowed it to make trip up the coast in Florida. I appreciated the 41 mpg with its 20 g tank and it rode and responded very well.
A car I loved was an old Mercedes D, a 60s? model- maybe earlier. It was narrow so that only two could sit on the back seat. I borrowed it to make trip up the coast in Florida. I appreciated the 41 mpg with its 20 g tank and it rode and responded very well.
The hollow spars of the main rotor blades on the Sikorsky CH-53D Sea Stallion helicopter are pressurized. If a crack develops, they loose pressure. So a pressure indicator very similar to your tire valve indicator was fitted.
It had alternating black & white rings inside a cover with alternating clear & white rings. Fully pressurized all was white. Loss of pressure showed black-white-black-white. They were called BIMs - Blade Inspection Monitors.
Thanks, pretty cool and they don’t cost 50 bucks to fix.
Solid vehicles and they aren’t as over-proud of their vehicles when it comes to pricing. These days, customers are getting ripped off by a lot just paying for a name when the vehicle isn’t any better/more reliable than it’s “low end car maker” products.
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