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- From: aland@informix.com (Colonel Panic)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos
- Subject: Re: Honda perfection management
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.041226.16376@informix.com>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 04:12:26 GMT
- References: <ELI.93Jan13094923@glare.cisco.com> <1993Jan20.073214.5759@informix.com> <ELI.93Jan20092614@glare.cisco.com>
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- Organization: Helen Keller Bondurant's Performance Driving School for the Blind
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- In article <ELI.93Jan20092614@glare.cisco.com> eli@cisco.com (Steve Elias) writes:
- >2 for 2 with new hondas. 0 for 2 with new GMs.
- >
- >total perfection, dude. this doesn't impress you?
-
- Not really.
-
- >how many vehicles do you know of which had 0 defects 0 repairs
- >in that many miles? please name the makes and models of such vehicles
- >that you have owned or you know about for sure.
-
- The only absolute 0 and 0 I personally have experience with in over 30K miles
- are my mom's Saturn SL1 and my Toyota Celica GT-S. (The GT-S ate its
- fuel pump at about 38K, to the tune of $500). My Probe GT had zero defects
- on delivery and has none so far (3K miles).
-
- None of the 7 Hondas bought new in my family in the last 11 years qualifies.
- Three ate one or both front rotors, for example.
-
- >i bought 2 new GM products, each had thousands
-
- What year(s)? What models?
-
- >of dollars of warranty work done IN THE FIRST 3 MONTHS, and thousands
- >more done by 50k. if i typed in all the problems, your fuckin disk
- >drive would overflow. if anyone objects to my use of "yucky swear
- >words", use a kill file so you don't have to read my articles.
-
- Not a bad thought.
-
- >regarding your scoffing at my "expectations", because i'm impressed
- >with perfection after 35k and 15k miles. drop some facts instead of
- >attitude, guy.
-
- Two cars does not a trend make.
- Come back and post again when you have 100K on each. Neither of your
- cars is beyond the 3 years / 36K level.
-
- >also, what point are you trying to make with the 36k warranty
- >mention below? is it ok with you if your car shits the bed as
- >long as it is covered under warranty? do you have a lot of time
-
- Of course not -- the point is that it's in the manufacturer's financial best
- interest to make damn sure everything is right in that timeframe, at least.
-
- >/eli
-
- If your sole interest is anecdotal flamage, take this to email.
-
- --
- Alan Denney aland@informix.com {pyramid|uunet}!infmx!aland
-
- "The other night I was lying in bed, looking up at the stars, and
- I wondered, "Where the FUCK is my ROOF ?!?"
- -- cadesjardins@descartes.waterloo.edu
-