Surprise device lifespan

[grampahol]

(04-04-2018, 08:42 AM)Au165 Wrote: It won't. Car manufactures reputations anymore are just that reputations not reality. My mom's 2014 RAV 4 had transmission issues 30k miles in that Toyota fought not to cover under warranty. My wife's Toyota Highlander has an engine issue at 70k that would have cost 3k to fix had it not been for an extended warranty that we had. No car really lasts anymore like what a lot of them have the reputation to. I had a 2011 Honda Accord I got rid of that had an engine knock from a defective VTC actuator 40k miles in that is a known design flaw that Honda refuses to acknowledge and cover. You can keep replacing them but they will always fail, yet Honda says it doesn't merit a recall mainly because the design is flawed and it can't be fixed. 

I am actually trending back towards "American" brands as it seems they put a little more effort in now where as the foreign cars are resting on their reputation of quality rather than actually providing it. Sorry for the rant, but every time I see someone talk about the quality of Toyota and Honda it is my life's mission to warn people.

The same can be said for "Made in America"  for lots of stuff . Cars have become way over engineered to the point that many require highly skilled technicians with a lot of very expensive equipment to work on them . Every headlight is different and the days of fitting the parts from one vehicle to another are gone . It seems there is no such thing as universal parts for anything anymore .