I don't even care, personally. I can't afford to buy anything other than what I think is going to have the best chance of being a reliable vehicle that runs forever. For me, the Japanese rule that roost, period. If or when the US automakers make a comparable product, they MIGHT get me back. Maybe. I simply can't afford to buy something that turns out to be poorly engineered 5 years later. I mean... how hard is it to spray white paint, and yet there's all those Chev's and Dodge rigs out there with peeling paint. And those company's did nothing to make it right. Or those notorious Chrysler auto trannies.
-jeff
in article snipped-for-privacy@ptd.net, Mike Hunter at snipped-for-privacy@mailcity.com wrote on 2/19/06 1:00 PM:
I hear you. I sold my 2001 Toyota Tacoma 4X4 extra cab for 3000.00 less then I paid for it. And this was 4 yrs after I bought It. The only reason I sold It was that it getting only 14 MPG and gas prices were 3.05 for 87 OC here In Calif. I bought a Chev Colorado and I know It's not going to be any where near what I sold the Toyota for. The price of gas Is the only reason I sold It. When I bought it new in 2001 the price was under 1.00 a gallon.
Insurance went down a little for the Colorado. About 150.00 a yr. I bought the 7yr Insurance repair plan from the dealer. Never once did I have to take the Toyota in for repairs other then the every 3000 mile oil change. With the new Colorado it's been in the shop 3 times in the past 10 months.
This was the 1st and last time I will buy another Chev. I love the truck, But spending time at the dealership sucks. I like It when they tell me that I'll have to leave It for the day. You need It all day to do a 30-45 min fix ? I have a appointment. Me and the service mgr. went around and around with that more then once.
The best part Is when the company sends me the rate the truck and dealership forms. I rate them both so low, that they don't send them to me anymore. :) Waste of time anyway. They never contact me asking me how can we help you with the problems.
When I took the Toyota in for oil changes, I would get a rate us card from the dealership and another one from Toyota. I filled it out and sent it back. A few times I would get a free oil change for spending a few min's to fill it out and return it. The Dealership told me when I fill out the one for the company they will send me a free thing of touchup paint. ( I never got it ) Not that I care.
When I bought my Colorado the dealership said, You will be getting your
1st oil change free. We will send you a free coupon in the mail. I never got it, I never asked for it. Why ? I don't let them touch it unless it's under the factory 7 yr. plan. They charge 34.50 for a oil change. I can go to a tire store that has a ASE guy that will change it for under 22.00
I took it to the dealership for a front end alignment. After the 2nd time it was still off. The time spent going to the dealer and waiting cost me more then It would have to take it to the tire store. After the 2nd time, I did take it to the tire place. It was fixed the 1st time and half the wait. I sent the dealership the bill and a copy to chev. I gave them two weeks to pay. They did not. I went to small claims court. They never showed up for court. The judge ruled in my favor and added on the court cost and a extra 100.00 for my time. Gave them 15 days to pay the court. I got the check from the court in 13 days.
That was shortly after the affable and friendly Bill Clinton left office. Those were the good ole days, when all we had to worry about was the Prez getting extra-marital head.
Now we worry about attacks on our homeland--September Eleventh occuring just 8 months after Dubya took control of the wheel.
Thank you Mister President for giving us 9/11.
It's time we impeach that election-stealing, war-starting Oil puppet who's always making enemies for America in the Middle East.
For those of you who say that Nine-Eleven was President Bill Clinton's fault because Bill had a couple opportunities to assassinate Osama Bin Laden but did NOT do so, I would say that had Bin Laden been killed in the 1990's, then 9/11 may have happened just that much sooner.
During the Clinton years, there was not a single airplane hijaking---not one. Clinton was the diplomatic type. He favored diplomacy over aggression. Bush takes office, and bam, within 8 months we're hit and hit hard by an airplane hijaking. Dubya Bush was obviously acting aggressively (REALLY AGGRESSIVELY) in Saudi Arabia, instead of diplomatically, and the enemies he made over there retaliated on 9/11. Peaceful Clinton years give way to the Warring Bush years.
By the way, as I've said before, I'm not even convinced Osama Bin Laden had anything to do with the World Trade Center attacks. The Bush Government lies about everything--they'd have you believe Sadam Hussein was behind 9/11 too.
9/11 shows that we cannot hurt them without them hurting us. The saying is "Live and Let Live," not "Live and let die."
"Live and let die" works for Double-Oh-Seven 007, but not in real life. Great movie, poor reality.
Diplomacy works better than the stick. But Bush is not the diplomat. He wanted to invade Iraq, and made up stories of weapons of mass destruction to do so. Bush is an aggressor and big-time liar, and should be impeached. =============
(Part of this was excerpted from my post in the California death penalty thread.)
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