Matt Barrow wrote:

"Matt Whiting" wrote in message
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Matt Barrow wrote:


I'd love it if Toyota built them instead of Cessna.

Even better would be Honda.

Ha, ha, ha ... that's funny. I had a new Honda once (84 Accord). Won't
make that mistake again.


1984 was, I believe, the first year that Honda led the JD Powers customer
satisfaction survey (which they then led for 18 years), so what were you
doing different?

My 84 lost the cam and all 16 rocker arms at less than 80,000 miles ...
and the zone office rep said that I hadn't maintained the engine
properly. After sending him a copy of my log book which I keep for all
of my vehicles (yes, ground as well as air) which showed all maintenance
and that I'd used a premium oil even (Mobil 1), he sent a second letter
saying that 80,000 miles of engine life was within Honda's
"manufacturing tolerance." Sorry, but that is the only auto engine I've
owned in 30 years of car ownership that didn't easily make 100,000
miles. And the only other engine that didn't last until I got rid of
the vehicle was a 1971 VW Beetle engine that began to leak so bad that I
had to tear it down with about 105,000 on it to replace the seals.

I haven't yet owned a Toyota, but friends who had owned both favor
Toyota's by a fairly significant margin.

Matt