Randy, it might be a matter of apples and tangerines. There were a number of asian autos I have owned that I liked and gave good service. For some reason most of them were not held onto for overly long, being upgraded to fresher asian iron by SWMBA.
This group likes the reliability of those basic cars with stars from back in the day, which a person can work on. The older asian cars are now the everyman’s car for the youth to hot rod, much as their grandfathers did before them, but with American iron. We like the German iron to put right, not molest as the critters on FB seem prone to. A motto for the Benz contingent might be “built proper, keep it right”. The new generation of cars are difficult for the shade tree wrench to keep right, as one needs the skills of Martha Penoff to do it right most of the time with computers and gizmos instead of a set of spanners and a basic understanding of up/down, left/right. Cars of the past decade have become more robotic, complex, and expensive to put right. With my move out of the old Benz fold, I am looking at hanging up my tools, since there is no way I can fiddle with the computers in these new cars. It took me three days to figure out how to reset the nanny message in the jeep after changing the oil. I did reset the automagic compass, date and time, service interval, personal preferences for lighting, seating, gauges, deprogrammed the garage opener button, and may have caused another mystery battery drain while punching up buttons on the control console. I do not need or want a car that thinks it is smarter then I am. clay > On Oct 25, 2019, at 7:39 AM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > I know many of you are not fond of Asian cars, but I have to defend them > somewhat. We have a 2007 Honda Accord that has served us very well so far. It > is my wife's car and she drives it hard. We acquired it a year old in 2008 > with 23K miles on it and it now has about 80K miles on it - almost all of > which are short in town trips. We have done pretty much nothing but things > like tires, brakes, a battery, and a starter (and I am not truly convinced it > needed the starter). There is no rust. It basically looks like it did when we > acquired it. The body is tight - no rattles and the interior is standing up > very well. Some little plastic latch has given up in a swing up door in the > center console but I cannot think of anything else in the interior that is > not like it was when we got it. Things like the struts still appear to be > fine. > > I think that is good service. > > Randy _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
