On Dec 18, 9:47 am, (Richard Casady)
wrote:
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:30:03 -0500, Wayne.B

wrote:
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:20:22 -0800 (PST),
wrote:

The Chevy
Blazer I drive now has less than 100,000 miles and because I have used
it like a truck, it's falling apart, literally...

It's not falling apart because you used it like a truck. It's
falling apart because the corporation that built it could give two
****z about quality and durability. That is why they are where they
are.

We have two trucks, a F-150 and a Lincoln Navigator. The Navigator
developed a leaking valve guide at 175k. We figured it was the opening
shot in a campaign to get all my dough, what with 31more valves, four
cams. And so on, and on. So we put in a new motor. A thousand miles
later the starter went out. Five hundred bucks! Figures.

Casady

Am now having some "buyers regrets" knowing that even with 4WD that
I'll be hesitant to take my shiny new truck down some rutted roads
with branches that will scratch her. I'll try to tell myself "Hell,
it's a truck" and go anyway. A week after I bought my old NIssan in
1985, I turned on its side on a seriously steep icy 4WD road in the
Newsome Sinks area near Huntsville, AL going to a cave. We got out
and righted her and she always had that dent on the right side as a
badge of "I can go anywhere".
Getting 4WD was not part of my plan because I almost never use it here
in FL but I got a very good deal so.............My family wants to use
it in Wyoming when we go there every year.