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What is the best japanse brand in your opinion? Ive been a ford or chevy guy since I started driving 22 years ago. I've about had it with their junk and they are getting to be a real bitch to work on for simple basic repairs. A fucking headlight or battery repair usually takes me over an hour because half the battle is just getting all the shit out of the way to get to them while also pretending you have hands the size of a 2 yr old.
Toyota, just ask Scotty Kilmer
Toyota. I own a Prius and can tell you it's been the most trouble free car I've ever owned. The downside is it's a hybrid and those batteries don't last forever. I had to replace the traction battery at 78K at a cost of $2300, one year out of warranty. Although Toyota did tossed in $750 and the dealer took $400 off the battery for me. Due to people owning hybrids longer than the manufacture expected Toyota has had to increase the warranty on the hybrid system to 10 years and I think it's either 120K or 150K miles.
When I replace my 2010 Prius my next Toyota will be a non hybrid Camry.
I like Mazda for driving. Toyota for reliability.
Plus it seems like more foreign cars are made here in the states while GM is constantly trying to find ways to either have parts made in china or shit assembled in mexico. Ford is ok with truck manufacturing but most of their stuff is mexican now too.
Toyota Corolla.
pretending you have hands the size of a 2 yr old.
the Japanese are no better with that--I always thought it was because they had smaller hands in general. I've had a Honda and Nissan: in both cases, for even minor little things, you can tell they still had an idea for repair where you could actually take stuff apart and actually put it back seemlessly as if nothing had happened--American stuff seems like it was put together as something disposable, never meant to come apart, let alone go back together.
I'm no expert, but I think you are on the right path for what you are looking for. On the other hand, I hear old S10's are a good model for self repair (and what I'm looking for). As far as new stuff, I really can't speak, but the whole industry seems to be going in a single direction like everything else.
It is crazy how everything seems to be going in the wrong direction--and it ain't gonna get better any time soon. Greed, jews, and shitskins are the end of all that is good.
Yeah, right now even not being a mechanically inclined person, I still try do as many basic things on my cars and simple repairs around the house. My first car was a 91 chevy cavalier and even when I was 16-17 I could change oil, filters, battery, headlights, tail lights, gasket seals, brake pads with some help. My 2012 edge I have now leaves my hands bloody and me wanting to set the thing on fire as I cuss the engineers who desiged it. My moms chrysler is even worse. My dad and I were going to put a battery in it and the fucking thing was impossible to get to. You had to take the fucking wheel off it to remove it! I had an inlaw buy a new f250 over the weekend and Im pretty sure his payment is a mortgage payment equivalent. There is going to have to be a bubble pop at some point because the new cars have sooo much high tech shit on them that cost 1000s to fix and people are taking 6-7yr loans on them. The average simp american will not be able to maintain this if the economy crashes.
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