Anyone making a reliable new truck now?
I read nothing but problems out of new trucks now. The new Ford 7.3 gas engine that I had hopes for has spark plug wiring harness problems. Chevy gas engines are still using the deal where they drop...
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I concur with the 'vehicles are better than they used to be" folks... to my mind, the big steps were electronic ignition, fuel injection, and whatever changed in the steel in the 90s that keeps them from turning to rusty dust in 5 years... no need to choke the carb, pump the pedal just right, hope you haven't flooded it, and put in a wish with the nearest genie that it actually fires.. i go back to the days of "tuneups"..
In the past 20-plus years, having in this period owned trucks by dodge/ram 1500 [2], toyota tundra [2], toyota tacoma, and ford f-150 (all but the ford used in pulling a tt), and cars/suv's by toyota (2), ford, and jeep (3), not a one of any of these ever left me stranded because of a mechanical failure...and the only time any of those wouldn't start was because of a dead battery
But my 80s and early 90s cars were all trash;
Escort would actually sometimes turn off entirely if you lifted off the gas while at highway speed in fourth gear (you haven't lived until you have experienced the thrill of finding yourself suddenly and unexpectedly free-wheeling on an exit ramp with a semi getting bigger and bigger in the rear view mirror)...Dodge Shadow spit out the aircon compressor every 10,000 miles, like clockwork ($1000 or so a pop)...whole upper end of the motor in a hyundai ruined when the timing belt let go about 5000 miles before the book called for it to be repkaced.... and don't even get me started on the 77 dodge trucks
As far as vehicles it ain't like the old days.. it's much better
In the past 20-plus years, having in this period owned trucks by dodge/ram 1500 [2], toyota tundra [2], toyota tacoma, and ford f-150 (all but the ford used in pulling a tt), and cars/suv's by toyota (2), ford, and jeep (3), not a one of any of these ever left me stranded because of a mechanical failure...and the only time any of those wouldn't start was because of a dead battery
But my 80s and early 90s cars were all trash;
Escort would actually sometimes turn off entirely if you lifted off the gas while at highway speed in fourth gear (you haven't lived until you have experienced the thrill of finding yourself suddenly and unexpectedly free-wheeling on an exit ramp with a semi getting bigger and bigger in the rear view mirror)...Dodge Shadow spit out the aircon compressor every 10,000 miles, like clockwork ($1000 or so a pop)...whole upper end of the motor in a hyundai ruined when the timing belt let go about 5000 miles before the book called for it to be repkaced.... and don't even get me started on the 77 dodge trucks
As far as vehicles it ain't like the old days.. it's much better
