On Dec 18, 11:23*am, Tim wrote:
On Dec 17, 11:05*pm, wrote:





On Dec 17, 11:30*pm, 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 are both right. I should be able to use a truck like a truck. ****,
the trailer I tow doesn't weigh 750 pounds loaded with the two bikes.
My boat and trailer only weighs less than 1000... The "truck" we
bought originally for the wife is really just a glorified car with bad
gas mileage... *After 35 years of driving, I am looking at foreign
trucks for the first time ever. I just can't watch another American
car fall apart after 7 years... My Blazer is an 01 with less than
100,000, closer to 80,000. It's only been used as a truck for the last
15,000 or so. The doors are falling off the thing, the windshield is
falling out. Every contact point on the roof rack is leaking and
around the side windows, sunroof, the back gate won't stay open.. it
is a piece of ****... No more GM for me, and I used to work for them...

Simple solution. Get an old mercury stationwagon. It's a half ton ford
pickup with a camper shell already made on it.

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Since Tom is away I will say it for him.. Luddite, that's what he says
right?

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

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.

On Dec 18, 8:47*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

500 bucks for a starter?????

CRIPES!

On Dec 17, 9:00*pm, Frogwatch wrote:

*Will just have to get used
to it. *Maybe throw a buncha tools in the back to roll around and some
empty oil cans and it'll feel right.


Be sure to poke a hole in the muffler, so you can get that good and
used "sound"