Originally Posted By: Miller88
Originally Posted By: whip
Originally Posted By: Trav
Originally Posted By: laserred96gt
Toyota is acknowledging the problem, GM hid it.
Cant gin up a real answer take the moral high road i say.
Toyota was just fined for doing the exact same thing.
http://www.examiner.com/article/toyota-accused-of-hiding-defect-and-will-be-fined
Just in case someone missed it. Toyota did the exact same thing as GM. Still, I haven't seen a single person claim they will never buy another Toyota.
Remember the hysteria over the 2 Tesla fires? Where's the outrage and hand wringing about the Toyota fires?
That's just the mentality of Japanese car owners.
"My 2002 Accord v6 is on it's third transmission. I have had to pay for each one. Hondas are great cars!"
"My Toyota sludged up and ble the engine. It's okay, they are great cars"
"My Honda with VCM ate a camshaft. But it's a honda and they run forever"
"I can't figure out how to operate the touch screen radio on my Ford ... pieces of garbage, I'll never buy another one"
Before anyone accuses me of it - I'm not saying that Japanese automobiles are inferior to American vehicles. It just takes significantly more problems to get someone to swear off a Japanese brand.
I have to say I agree with you. I saw it first hand when I had my Accord and Jetta, They would have something wrong, I would get it fixed and people would say things like, "Oh it good to go now (which they were not) or be glad it isn't a Ford, GM or Chrysler."
One story really sticks in my mind...
I had a 1991 Corvette the 700R4 died at 190,000 miles. Happens when you drive a car hard for that many miles. My neighgor who had an 03 Accord, gave me a real hard time about it. When his auto tranny went out at 78,000 miles and he had to have it swapped, it was OK becuase it was a Honda and the engine will go 200,000 miles without a problem. When I mentioned that is about what the first transmission in the Corvette went and the engine had tons of life left in it his reply was..."Well dosen't really matter it is a Chevy so it is still a POS, just not put together well."
Never understood that logic. I never had any problem with that Corvette except the transmission and when that died, It got a stroker motor too because it was easy to get the engine in and out at that point.