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Ok how about Most reliable transportation you. Have had or have
Ditch-Runner
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I have had several chevy and ford's that just kept going no problems
But I can say hondas have held up to there reputation (working there for 25 yrs has no way swayed my choices but did not hurt it after being involved in how much they care about quality )
We started in 2002 with a civic then a element then another civic but the wife liked the element so we got another element stillhave it
Both my sons have had several each and both just bought a new crv a couple months apart my DIL also has newer CRV
Will add I have friends who have Toyotas and had great experiences also
What's ya got
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I'm very careful about paying compliments to machinery and the like. Learned long ago that such bliss can quickly turn around and bite you!
Aside from my superstitious feelings on the matter, my 2008 KIA Sportage 4x4 mini SUV has been the car I have owned the longest in my life. It has been a pretty good car with only the usual brakes, tires, and oil change maintenance so far.
I just hope I do not regret sharing this with you all! 😲
I had a 75 Volvo that I drove into a Subaru dealership to trade in, they gave $1000 . It had 500,000 miles on it
Brother drove a 87 Nissan 4WD pickup 375,000.
2 Jeep Cherokees both hit 350,000 delivering mail
1985 Nissan Pulsar. Dad bought it for my brother and I to learn on, and then kept it for years to commute to work with. Very unrefined, but a fun little car. I think we started somewhere around 180,000 miles and got rid of it at about 350,000. Never one day in the shop.
Dad paid $650 for the thing and sold for $1200. Wish there were deals like that these days.
My all-time favorite car I had was my 1965 Plymouth Satellite. I still miss that car, and wish I had it back.
Joe
Honda CRV, hands down.
Almost a tossup between my previous vehicle and my current. The previous was a 2000 Dodge that I called the "Durabledango" because it was almost bulletproof for the 10 years I drove it. My current 2008 Toyota Highlander I bought in 2012 and it is simply flawless. It had one major breakdown when the Variable Valve Timer went bad, but zero issues since.
The VVT is a beyoch to fix. They have to remove and then disassemble the engine to even get to it. The bulk of the repair job was labor hours.
I guess Ive been most happy with my Buicks.
350000 on two Jeeps should be turned in to Ripleys!
Over 320,000 on a Honda Accord, 296,000 on a Honda CRV, 190,000 on a Honda Civic that I traded in on a Honda CRV. Currently have 2 Honda CRVs with over a 100,000 each. Not a lot spent on these, but I do most of the work myself and avoid the stealer ship as much as possible.
The guy I sold the 320,000-accord ran mail route with it for a couple years and I saw it on the road latter to the people he sold it too.
Early on when I was working for Honda
I worked at the eng plant 25.5 yrs
Any way they were giving a salesman a new accord and were going to add his to their collection
it had just over one million documented miles on it he had it serviced at hondsa dealers so all the servie records he had and documented to prove it
I dont recall if he called honda or they contacted him about when he hit one million mile martk they would give him a new car
he was a salesman and had to drive cross country often if I remember correctly at the time they listed what he had done To the car over its life what had been replaced and maintance
At the time they had made a big deal with the news and magazine articles
At the time it was unheard of to reach such a mile stone
As a kid I rember a car seemed like 50k it was just worn out if it made a 100k it was like a fogging machine and headed to the junk yard and no one waned it uses it was dirt cheap
Some time back it became a selling point of a car it only has 100k miles just broke in get this lowile Beatuy
a lot better maerials and better tolerances have greatly increased the life of the drive trains
Better everything. They don't build 'em like they used to -- thank goodness! I recall when it was necessary to change the oil every 1,000 miles with 30W in the summer and 10W in the winter. 10W-30 didn't exist. And that 1,000-mile oil was like tar when it came out.
I just did a full changeout of everything possible at 100,000 miles in my Highlander. It'll be good for as long as I live, probably.
They get a raw deal but I had a 1970 Maverick that just kept going and going. 200 six with C4 automatic with no options about the only thing I changed in 300,000 miles was a couple alternators a couple sets of brake shoes. When I moved to Florida I sold it to a neighbor who drove it back and forth from Orlando to Tampa for another 2 years
CRV
Almost anything made by Honda. I've owned a lot of motorcycles by a lot of different brand names and the one that you just can't kill is always a Honda.
Any generator,water pump, lawn mower, pressure cleaner etc, etc with a Honda motor on it will outlast all the rest.
A pair of red wing boots.
We have 5 trucks... That's Including the Suburban. My favorite truck we had was a 1986 Ford F250 "Truckie"... We still have him but unregistered and bad rust.... Before I got Stude it was my dream to do something with him... We have a 94 Dodge 1500 4x4 I wish I could have another one of... Our Suburban is a good car I'm just not overly fond of driving it.
"Independence Now, Independence Forever."
John Adams
Talking about how much cars have improved over the years, I remember having to replace mufflers and exhaust systems at least 3 times before hitting any substantial milage (like 50,000). Bodies were rust buckets on cars and trucks that were a mere 4 or 5 years old.
Today, most muffler shops are either out of business or doing other mechanical work. Remember Ziebart?? "It's Us Or Rust" a slogan and a business gone with the wind!
Not mine, but a carpool buddy had a late 60's long bed Chevy p/u with 400.000 some odd miles on it. He claimed he had never changed the oil in it - said it changed itself as long as he kept adding oil. "Rooster" was an interesting guy.
Still driving a 1999 Nissan Frontier with 515,000 miles on it.Never stranded me.When the battery died it was in my driveway.New alternator at 350,000,new water pump at 375,000.Tranmission went at 400,000 and replaced it with a junkyard transmission.The AC clutch is squealing so I am going to replace the compressor and drier before it gets too hot outside.
1973 Ford F-150
Still driving it?
Toyota Pickups & Tacomas. Non UAW
When I was in college, gas shot from .39 cents to over a buck within about year. I started school with 1972 T-Bird.
12 MPG going downhill ! I bought my first VW during my Jr. year and drove nothing but VW's for the next twenty years. I finally moved back to GM and Ford products once my sons were too big to stuff in the back seat.
I had really great luck with a VW Scirocco and a couple Jettas.. All ran well over 200K before I sold them outright and bought something different. They were great runners, but when they did need repair work, it was really pricey..
I did learn one thing during in the process.... You can get three deer in the back of a VW Rabbit !!!
#1: 1983 Trans-Am
#2: 2005 Jeep Wrangler
My 68 Bronco. Has not failed me in 52 years. After all the hard driving in the woods and sand dunes, it always brought me home. I might have limped home but at least I was able to get there.
And a twelve gallon fuel tank!
1988 T-800 with a four and a quarter revin' through a 15 speed putting power to the pavement in a pair of .456's. In nine years she only let me down once when a fan blade broke off. Even then I drove her home keepin' the RPM's low 'cause the vibration got pretty bad above about 1200.
Just a tidbit of wisdom from our friend Bullwinkle J. Moose.
It is much cheaper to buy a kidney belt than it is to spend a lot of money on a set of new shock absorbers. 😁
I had one similar as a kid. I am not sure what kid owned it before me , i do know it was not new . i remember that my mom gave it a new red pait job and the ladder a coat of white . I have no idea what ever become of it.
but For a short time it was my firetruck and i was proud of it . Same with a old wagon about the same time
The old hand me down pedal car we shared as little kids also seemed to just disappear without too much notice as most of us were getting too old for it. I remember it was dark blue and a car, not a fire truck. Had that bubble 40's, early 50's look about it.
I bought my family's homestead from my dad back in 1986 and some years later found what was left of the ole pedal car. It was 3\4's buried in muck way back in the swamp behind the house! Not in any shape to be restored. Just junk.
My 2000 Ram 2500 diesel. 642,000 miles and only a starter failure kept it from starting and running like a dream, a noisy dream for sure. Well, except for the time I ran it out of fuel.....😮
1989 S10 Blazer we bought new. Not one problem with that truck ever. Wish I had it back. Sold it when our son was born, because it only had two doors. Bought a four door expedition, what a turd.
Nissan Frontier, 4WD.
We leased a new just to see what or how great leasing was also in 1989 1st and last time we ever went that route
When the lease was up the buy it price was crazy so we just turned in in I think we bought a 92 chevy van after turning in the s10 and the van was junk so many little issues
But the s10 was a great vehicle for us at the time I missed it after turning it back in