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- From: frank@unixg.ubc.ca (Murray Frank)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos
- Subject: Re: Honda perfection management
- Date: 22 Jan 93 05:41:42 GMT
- Organization: The University of British Columbia
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- References: <ELI.93Jan13094923@glare.cisco.com> <1993Jan20.073214.5759@informix.com> <ELI.93Jan20092614@glare.cisco.com> <1993Jan22.013308.18148@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- In <1993Jan22.013308.18148@en.ecn.purdue.edu> surge@en.ecn.purdue.edu (PhD-in-Training) writes:
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- >In article <ELI.93Jan20092614@glare.cisco.com> eli@cisco.com (Steve Elias) writes:
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- >The Hondas have a good reliability record as far as break down on
- >the road, I don't doubt that. The point of this thread is that
- >most Honda owners conveniently seem to forget the ridiculously
- >high maintinence costs of their cars. I don't have to have my
- >timing done (not till past 100K if ever, thanks to engine
- >management). I don't have to have my valves adjusted routinely.
- >I don't have to have a rubber timing belt replaced (mine is
- >chain). Wait till you have to replace your timing belts to the tune of a
- >couple hundred bucks (at 60K)....you will still be singing the
- >"reliability" song. That's what annoys non-Honda owners.
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- The facts on average ownership costs are not so clear cut as has been
- being suggested. From Autopinion 93 published by the Canadian Automobile
- Association: Average Mechanical Repair Costs for 1988 thru 1992
- Accord $724, $ 507, $378, $371, $281
- Taurus $664, $ 499, $509, $212, $215
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- Degree of owner satisfaction: Very Satisfied
- Taurus 77.9%, Accord 90.9%
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