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To: TheRhinelander
Good luck to you, and I mean that (not in a malicious way, that is).

Toyota’s recalls are usually minor and their cars do last with far less nickling/diming; although you do have to look at where the car came from to judge the quality in some instances. Just got rid of a 2001 Echo with over 265K miles; built in Japan.

And no, I do not like the idea of having to look for cars that are not American makes, just to worry about my wallet and to not worry about owning a piece of machinery that ends up “found on road, dead” and stranding me, so to speak.
12 posted on 10/01/2013 2:20:47 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Not entirely true. An old Marine friend of mine from work (rest in peace) had a Toyota truck, the larger one. They had to replace the entire frame, which was prematurely rusting out on them. Major. They must have forgotten to e-dip them.

Every LH car I’ve ever had has gone 200k miles. Sure they needed normal crap. Had four, only one needed a catalytic converter so I scrapped it. The Concorde I got had 100k when i bought it, it’ll go another 150k with regular repair and maintenance.

The Challenger sees as few miles as possible. No issues. Yeah, it’s got a Hemi.


19 posted on 10/01/2013 5:34:29 PM PDT by TheRhinelander
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