The things I see at work

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The things I see at work

Reply #15 – December 03, 2012, 07:50:36 PM

Thunder

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Reply #16 – December 03, 2012, 07:56:30 PM

First, my uncle has an Accent. It's his fifth,

FIV

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Reply #17 – December 03, 2012, 09:57:20 PM

Well, if they were utter shiznit, then i doubt the manufacturer would off the best warranties of ALL makes on them.

And there's a reason FWD cars aren't Supercars like your elitist LamboFerraroPorscheshagAllElse.

Can you guess?

Weight distribution.
With that said, if you can't agree that some (not all, and sure not some backyard, stickers-out-the-asshole Civic) front drivers are impressive machines, then you truly need to take another look at something beyond your own parking lot.

Porsches and the italian rich man cars do not impress me one ed bit. For 100,000 bucks or so, it sure as hell ought to be able to run 175, corner like a train, and rip your eyeballs from your head when you mash the brakes. I could build a junkyard shiznitbox Mustang into something that could do all those things for half that.

Point is, to each their own.
/rant.

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Reply #18 – December 03, 2012, 10:42:15 PM

Quote from: TOM Renzo;403861

But trying to convince me a HYUNDAI is a good car is a tough sell.

It's safe to say your school teachers had a hard time convincing you the sky is blue.

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Reply #19 – December 04, 2012, 09:47:14 AM

wow,

so what metals up there dont decay?
what i mean is a coating to the frame like say what they do to copper as of the past 10 or so years.
They are coating copper with Tin instead of solder.

Truely though, the car makers are reaching for the shortest lifespan possible without poor ratings from customer perception.
People today dont care about small stuff like this, they only care if it "looks" new.

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Reply #20 – December 04, 2012, 03:13:02 PM

A co-worker friend of mine bought one of those Jeeps for his wife (I believe it was the Compass) a couple of years ago when cash for clunkers was going on. He hates it (he calls it his gay jeep).

I think one of the reasons he bought it was that it had a lifetime powertrain warranty (only counts if its the original owner). Is this true? I guess they won't be doing many powertrain warranty claims in 10 yrs if all of these POS's are rusted in two.

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Reply #21 – December 04, 2012, 08:16:55 PM

Quote from: TOM Renzo;403860

Thunder Chicken the KIA and HYUNDAI are the biggest pile of garbage i have ever worked on. Bottom line is they are front wheel drive and that says it all. Their is no high end performance cars American or European that are front wheel drive. So as the saying goes. You can lead a horse to water but a pencil must be lead. If you think front wheel drives are the cats ASS so be it .

this 96 kia sophia of my mother in law's does every bit of the speedo,, really fast car. has been a great daily driver as well. body wise and interior,, fairly cheap and we know its nothing more than a 500$ car now at best,, but , it still gets 35+mpg and hauls ass.

id rate it a 10 for dependability and longivity.,, much better than my fox's to be honest. It was cheap when purchased and its cheap now to own and maintain.

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Reply #22 – December 04, 2012, 08:20:43 PM

Quote from: CougarSE;403893

It's safe to say your school teachers had a hard time convincing you the sky is blue.

LOL, thats because it isnt, the ocean is blue(ish) and to say the sky is blue isnt correct because we only see a reflection.

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Reply #23 – December 05, 2012, 07:09:11 PM

Quote from: TOM Renzo;403861

First, my uncle has an Accent. It's his fifth,

FIVE CARS IN HOW MANY YEARS. I have been driving my Blazer since 1994. It is rotted out but drives flawlessly. If you are talking about rust i agree. But trying to convince me a HYUNDAI is a good car is a tough sell. I did not fall off a TURNIP TRUCK LAST NIGHT!!! But to each his own. If you like them Great. I would have thought with your experience you would have avoided them like the PLAGUE!!! Hay people buy AUDI cars and pay boat loads of money for a car i would not even use for a BOAT ANCHOR!!! just Saying . Be good Tom!!

Five cars since 1995. Over 200k miles on each one of them (he commuted 120 miles a day, every day). One of them was even wrecked twice - once when a Pepsi truck ran into it while it was parked on the side of the road, once when a suicidal deer stuffed itself into the side of it. And it was by my experience, both as a mechanic and by the experience of my family members that I bought that car.

And it's kind of hard to take someone serious when their only argument is "Because they're FWD and FWD totally sucks".

Quote from: jcassity;403912

wow,

so what metals up there dont decay?
what i mean is a coating to the frame like say what they do to copper as of the past 10 or so years.
They are coating copper with Tin instead of solder.

Truely though, the car makers are reaching for the shortest lifespan possible without poor ratings from customer perception.
People today dont care about small stuff like this, they only care if it "looks" new.

I don't know what they coat them with. It's a black primer type coating. Galvanizing zinc plating) helps a bit, but as anyone here who has ever repaired the rockers and quarters in a Fox knows, galvanizing is not a real solution. About the only thing that doesn't rust around here is stainless, and I don't see them making stainless steel cars any time soon. And even stainless rusts apart on exhaust systems...

Quote from: 50tbrd88;403926

A co-worker friend of mine bought one of those Jeeps for his wife (I believe it was the Compass) a couple of years ago when cash for clunkers was going on. He hates it (he calls it his gay jeep).

I think one of the reasons he bought it was that it had a lifetime powertrain warranty (only counts if its the original owner). Is this true? I guess they won't be doing many powertrain warranty claims in 10 yrs if all of these POS's are rusted in two.

They did offer a lifetime warranty for a bit, just before the bankruptcy. There are a bunch of specific (and expensive) maintenance routines that have to be performed at a Chrysler dealership to keep that warranty active. Having the work done anywhere else or skipping a service will void the warranty.

Quote from: jcassity;403948

LOL, thats because it isnt, the ocean is blue(ish) and to say the sky is blue isnt correct because we only see a reflection.

You've got that backward, sunshine

. The sky's blue because high energy blue light does a better job of getting through the atmosphere. The ocean's blue because it reflects the blue sky.

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Reply #24 – December 05, 2012, 11:31:33 PM

Quote from: jcassity;403948

LOL, thats because it isnt, the ocean is blue(ish) and to say the sky is blue isnt correct because we only see a reflection.

The science teacher has to interject... The sky is blue (on a clear, sunny day) due to refraction and scattering of light. Blue scatters the most due to its relatively short wavelength. The ocean is blue because of the "reflection" of the blue sky.

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Reply #25 – December 06, 2012, 01:34:05 AM

there you go, see , we all are probable to arguing the sky is blue or not.
my schooling tought me that the sky was colored blue mainly beacase of the sun and most of the earth being water, the blue color would dominate the sky "because of said water".

ever see a brown looking sky, i have in Takrit Iraq,,, and no wind or sand moving either. its an odd topic but to me if my ground is brown, then it kinda connected with the sky looking litterally like .

i know its all a light show but still.

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Reply #26 – December 06, 2012, 05:44:26 AM

Five cars since 1995. Over 200k miles on each one of them

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Reply #27 – December 06, 2012, 05:48:57 AM

ever see a brown looking sky,

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Reply #28 – December 06, 2012, 06:01:41 AM

Quote from: TOM Renzo;404027

Five cars since 1995. Over 200k miles on each one of them

So are you telling me with a straight face a chevy or a ford cant go 200K. Be it as it may i find it hard to believe that someone in the car business actually can say a HYUNDAI is actually a car. And further more a good car. like i said 90% of American car buyers would not know a good car if it fell on them!!! Tell me a HONDA and we can agree to an extent. But a KIA HYUNDAI. NOT HAPPENING. But buy away i love the MONEY!!! Contractors around these parts have Chevy and ford trucks with plows with 300K on them. Once again as far as i am concerned a FWD car is not a CAR. Just me i like cars that actually do not have all their eggs in one basket. But that is your belief and i am not to judge!! So 20 years from now will we have a bunch of car guys talking about HYUNDAI cars we are saving and restoring for INFAMY??? JUST CHECKING!!!

Where on earth did you ever get the idea that I said Ford and Chevy can't go 200k?

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Reply #29 – December 06, 2012, 06:38:57 AM

You know all those beer cans you take back on Monday for 5 or 10 cents? Know where they go? They get crushed and sent to s, and then Korea buys them and THATS THEIR RAW MATERIALS. That's right Your Hyundai/Kia (same company) is a beer can. On wheels. But less fun. And worse, they don't pay diag under warranty, so you end up with dealer techs who are only allowed to throw parts at them.