On Wed, 02 Dec 2015 08:45:44 -0500, John H.
wrote:

On Tue, 01 Dec 2015 22:23:11 -0500, wrote:

On Tue, 01 Dec 2015 20:42:53 -0500, wrote:

Consumer Reports is always hard on any kind of performance car.

They gave the Tesla a score over 100. Never did that before. The reliability results
come from the owners who take the annual survey.

I haven't really looked at CR for years but when I was looking at
these things it looked to me that it was more the expectation of the
buyer than the absolute reliability. When I was looking at 2 virtually
identical cars, (like the GM "X" cars) using the same parts, the more
expensive cars got lower ratings than the cheaper one. I just assumed
a Cadillac owner was more of a complainer than a Chevy buyer if the
window motor was a little sluggish or the clock kept bad time.

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Chances are that the Cadillac owners might have not only had higher
expectations but might have also have had experience with other cars
where things actually worked. We recently junked my wife's ancient
Honda Accord because the transmission was giving out after 18 years of
faithful service. Everything else on the car was still working
perfectly however like the A/C, power seats, power windows, power
mirrors, power sun roof, etc. None of that had ever needed servicing
in the entire 140K+ miles that we owned the car.

Cheap-assed tranny if you ask me. Only 18 years? Damn, what a piece of crap!

Could your propensity to kick it to 90mph whenever you were behind the wheel have
anything to do with that? How often did you hold the brake, race the engine, and let
go the brake to out run the Mustang next to you at a stop light.

You've already admitted to being a hot-rodder, so we'll leave those questions in the
'rhetorical' category!


We had an old accord and there was a known problem with the
transmission that you could temporarily fix by taking off the battery
cable for a second. I don't remember the details but it was
software/electronic related. That showed up in the 150-160k mile
range.
We ended up just selling it. The funny thing was we had swapped the 89
accord with my daughter and I took her 86 Chrysler LeBanon. The
Lebanon outlasted the Honda. (after I fixed the steering problem that
prompted the swap in the first place)