On 2/6/07, John Freer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
So all this talk about Asian cars going 100K miles without maintanence can
not be true. Right off the bat, you have to change out the timing belt every
60K or so miles.
On 2/6/07, David Brodbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Peter Frederick wrote:
> > Japanese cars DO require less work than American ones -- I've had way
> too many friends who have driven them hundreds of thousands of miles with
> nothing but tires, oil changes, and brakes -- and sometimes not even brakes.
Well,
My results may vary greatly, however I'm willing to pretend like I
know everything anyway. My last few cars have been "foreign" in the
fact that they have foreign names. I am currently driving a 1994
Mitsubishi Diamante LS with 220,000+ miles out of a Gas engine that I
have *flogged* the last few thousand. (I think it had 205K when I
bought it last year). The car hasn't had much in the way of quality
service either.
The car I drove before that was a 1994 Mitsubishi Galant LS. Took that
one to 214,000+ miles before I sold it to my brother, who promptly
decided it was a race car and destroyed the transmission. It was also
a gas engine, that had been truly flogged by the college bound owner
that owned it before me and had driven a valve through the head. New
head and gaskets and I took it from roughly 170ish to 214 before the
sale to bro and subsequent bombing.
Before that I owned a 93 Toyota Corolla that my wife *hated* (she
drove it the most) and was before we were married. It had no power
options of any kind, and was around 280,000 when we sold it to buy the
94 Galant.
Now she drives an 03 Mitsubishi Galant ES with 80ish K on the clock.
I'm not sure the new engine is up to the same quality as the older
engines, then again it's roughly the same displacement 4 cyl from the
94 in a heavy, larger car. So that may have something to do with it
to, but it does have a slight leak somewhere. Haven't tracked it down
yet. Haven't really tired either though.
I haven't ever changed any of their timing belts, but I do know that
if they ever *do* go, instant heads :) I just don't have the money to
keep up with the factory recommended maintenance. Man I really want an
old pre 80's Rear wheel drive beast that I can work on myself ......
transverse engine design is horrible. Without a lift or someway to
crawl around under the Diamante while I lift the V6 up in the engine
bay, I can not change my own plugs or most of the belts. Designed to
be worked on by dealers only. *sighs*
One day I'll own a 108 ..... then I should only need a lift to do a
major transmission change, cause the engine will come through the top
instead of being design larger than the hood so it has to come out
from bottom only.
Ed
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