AUTOMOTIVEThe Most Reliable Car Brands, According to Consumer Reports

The Visual Capitalist ^ | 09/19/2024 | Karla Zhu

[V_TWIN]

My ‘18 JL has been relatively issue free. One quirk it has is occasionally I hear a loud pop through the speakers and the entertainment center will shut itself off.....after a couple of seconds I can power it back on. When that happens the clock resets itself to 12:00.....damn weird.

It seems however since I bypassed that stupid “parasite” battery that runs the auto start/stop function (which I also disabled) it seems to do it less frequently.

If you can get rid of that little battery n yours I’d highly recommend it.

[IYAS9YAS]

You are saying that the parent company, Hyundai, is WORSE than KIA?

I just pointed out where Hyundai is on the list above. I make no claims one way or the other. I've owned three Hyundais and one Kia. I have a 2010 Santa Fe that is having engine issues now. It's in the middle of the test for excessive oil consumption. They extended my 10-year warranty on it to 15 years or 150k because of the engine lawsuits. It only has 85k on the clock. If they don't cover it for engine replacement then going to drive it until it pukes all over itself and buy an older Toyota to replace it. The Kia isn't giving us any issues and is just over three years old to us. It's not driven much. We have less than 16k on it.

[SPDSHDW]

Luckily mine is under the primary battery.
I have a chip that disables the stop start, so once that battery is no good i’ll pull it out.

Thanks for the heads up on that quirk.

The Older JL’s we towed all the time for random electrical issues, but we hardly see any towed past 22 unless they’re accidents.

[V_TWIN]

Don’t wait too long on pulling that little battery....if that sucker cracks and leaks there’s no telling what the battery acid might damage.

[T. Rustin Noone]

My 2008 ML 350 is about to turn 100,000 miles on the odometer and I can attest that it has been the most reliable, trouble-free car I have ever owned. The list includes 3 BMW’s 2 Porsches, 2 Camry’s, 2 VW Sirocco’s, 1 Volvo, a couple of Crown Vic’s and a Jeep.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

LOL...About the same time as our owning the Toyota Sienna van, we bought a VW Jetta for the kids to use in high school. It burned as much oil as the Sienna! It was almost ONE QUART of oil per fill-up of gasoline! I never understood how it could have functioning spark plugs.

We have a special knack for vehicle selection!

[Red Badger]

I’ve owned American, Japanese, Korean, British, Italian and German Automobiles.

THEY ALL BREAK DOWN EVENTUALLY..................

[1Old Pro]

2 VW Sirocco’s

Had the 78 Champagne edition Scirocco, loved it. It just didn't last, rust, used oil, etc.

[thegagline]

“Are Hyundai’s SO bad that they didn’t even make the list?!”

They received a score of 56- right next to KIA and Buick

[GaltAdonis]

Wow. Sorry to hear about the Santa Fe. Hope it works out. Good luck!

But speaking of SUVs - my neighbors used to have a Nissan Xterra.
The thing was no end of trouble.

But my father and myself loved his old ‘74 Jeep Wagoneer.
Even though it was a rust bucket that did not run well.
But it KEPT RUNNING - after a fashion anyway.

I think that when AMC took Jeep over they started making Jeep’s out of cheaper steel.
The thing must have been the Recycled Beer Can Wagon. MAJOR heavy duty rust.
I wish I’d taken a picture of it.

[minnesota_bound]

My current car is a 2016 Honda Accord Sport bought in 2019..... It only has slightly more then 50,000 miles on it.

I have had oil changes and a alignment. The stealership said I needed a front lower ball joint boot at $552 and a air filter at $82. I replaced the air filter myself the previous month and found out the ball joint boot is a scam! by Honda stealerships. I went to another repair place that had a good rep and fixed all brands. When I told the guy there about the ball joint boot and that the car had under 50,000 at the time he shook his head and said you will not need one but would check. I did not need one. Do a search on the 2 "repairs" the stealership suggested I needed and you will find it is a scam for many many years.

Months before I went to the Honda stealership because I had one tire with the air valve body leaking and ask for it to be repaired. You could bend it and hear air leaking. It was replaced but I was still losing tire pressure so I bought a kit and inspected the valve stem and it was not screwed all the way in...! I bet they were setting me up for a repair. I will not go to the Honda places anymore.

I will be needing a new set of tires and they are expensive. About $250 a piece!

[newfreep]

So Porsche, Audi and VW are spread all over the mix but are the same company.

Different production factories.
Different engineering designs.
Different parts quality.

ps: Bugatti is also owned by VW and the $4M Chiron is certainly different & far superior from VW, Porche, Audi.

[Poser]

A baby’s arm holding an apple!

[Poser]

$2400 to replace the AC compressor on my Camry with 70k miles. Another thousand for a sensor under the intake manifold. Give me a 66 Dodge Dart with a slant 6. I can fix it myself.

[thegagline]

$2400 to replace the AC compressor on my Camry with 70k miles. Another thousand for a sensor under the intake manifold. Give me a 66 Dodge Dart with a slant 6. I can fix it myself.

Whoever invented the slant six should be in the pantheon of the world’s greatest thinkers.

I remember telling my father that the world was a better place when you could lift the hood and see straight through to your sneakers.