No car manufacturer has excellent quality reputation anymore. Toyota recalling all Tundra engines. Honda recalling hundreds of thousand of engines. Even Range Rovers and Rolls Royces have issues. I've followed Ford for years and they have a lot of recalls but, unlike most other manufacturers, they do recalls for even small numbers. They currently have one for 6 cars over 4 lines. Others would just contact those owners directly with a letter instead of a recall. I owned Wranglers when they switched to aluminum bodies and some Jeep posts had meltdowns when some paint started to peel (aluminum is very hard to paint) but every aluminum car has those problems.
I've had a lot of new cars (34 at last count) over the last 56 years of buying and only had a few minor issues, like a valve on the fuel tank canister sticking shut a couple of times on a VW and all the engine main bearings burning out on my 1969 muscle car (turns out you can't run an engine like that at redline for a continuous 20 miles) but it was covered under warranty. Plus the first year the Camaro Z28 came out with a computer chip for the engine, my engine would stall if starting out normally but go fine if you floored it. Chevy even sent out an engineer with a corvette chip to see if that would fix it. It didn't so they lemoned it and gave me a new Blazer. So I have been very satisfied with the 14 car brands I've had.
You may have gotten a bad transmission (the vast majority of them are fine), maybe you didn't maintain it right, or maybe the car gods rolled the dice and your BS came up. Planned obsolence is built into just about everything these days from cars to electronics to appliances by every industry and company. You can accept it as universal or become Amish.
But I do have a hard and fast rule - I never keep a car for more than 5 years. I then don't have to worry about big repair bills. Other rules are not keeping a house more than 10 years old and wife more than 8 years.
I've had a lot of new cars (34 at last count) over the last 56 years of buying and only had a few minor issues, like a valve on the fuel tank canister sticking shut a couple of times on a VW and all the engine main bearings burning out on my 1969 muscle car (turns out you can't run an engine like that at redline for a continuous 20 miles) but it was covered under warranty. Plus the first year the Camaro Z28 came out with a computer chip for the engine, my engine would stall if starting out normally but go fine if you floored it. Chevy even sent out an engineer with a corvette chip to see if that would fix it. It didn't so they lemoned it and gave me a new Blazer. So I have been very satisfied with the 14 car brands I've had.
You may have gotten a bad transmission (the vast majority of them are fine), maybe you didn't maintain it right, or maybe the car gods rolled the dice and your BS came up. Planned obsolence is built into just about everything these days from cars to electronics to appliances by every industry and company. You can accept it as universal or become Amish.
But I do have a hard and fast rule - I never keep a car for more than 5 years. I then don't have to worry about big repair bills. Other rules are not keeping a house more than 10 years old and wife more than 8 years.
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