On Sun, 23 Feb 2003, Andrew Grebneff wrote: > Get real. Hondas rust. Nissans have electrical problems and some of > their engines are disasters. Subarus have notoriously weak > transmissions. Subarus rust really bad here, too. > What fails on Toyotas? Bugger-all. They rust pretty bad here in salt country -- this is true of all Japanese cars. Not much salt in Japan I guess. There have also apparently been complaints about the engines sludging up and then seizing due to oil starvation, on some models, at least in the U.S. Toyota's gotten out of doing anything about it by blaming poor oil change intervals. _ _ __ _ _ _| | | | David M. Brodbeck (N8SRE) Ypsilanti, MI / _` | | | | | | +----------------------------------------------------- | (_| | |_| | | | @ cyberspace.org \__, |\__,_|_|_| "...we're not getting the creeps who knocked the |___/ buildings down. We're getting the creeps whose address we know." -- Maureen Dowd |
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