Reliable

[Mark Holden]

Well, my '91 SE-R is my dedicated competition car.  Other than an
alternator that failed the morning of an event, it hasn't let me down
in years.  About 190k on that one and a lot of time at WOT and
redline.  Lots of things people might be bother by failures in just
don't exist in that car anymore though.

'92 G20 has 230k on it, and it's my daily driver.  The PO did some
very, very bad things to it, but once those were rectified, it's
dead-solid reliable.  I take it on 400+ mile 1 day trips monthly.

Our '05 Altima 3.5SE has about 45k on it, and in 3.5 years the total
maintenance cost is well under $1k, including oil changes at the
dealer.  It's probably closer to $500 than $1k.  I think the Volvo V40
it replaced was running at least $1k/year in maintenance.

Something new breaks on my '93 Chevrolet pickup about every 2 months,
and it gets the least driving and the most attention of the four.

Mark Holden
meh710 at gmail.com



On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Omer F. Khan <ohmfab at comcast.net> wrote:
> Good call, George, I forgot my Power Steering pump broke too.  Damn,
> that was a pain to get out too I can't remember how I missed it.
>
> Speaking of Bimmers, a friend of mine just bought a 135i.  I like it a
> lot.  He is convinced, however, that the car is magnetically charged so
> that other cars make dents in his car even when it's parked many spaces
> away in seeming safety.
>
> I told him he was mistaken and that the powerplant in the new 1 uses
> bmw's twin black hole turbocharger technology which is so powerful the
> car might implode at various random points throughout the bodywork.
>
> He often drives it slow and complains about the idle hunting when he
> turns it over and its 15 degrees outside.  <sigh>  To his defense he did
> confirm that the speed limiter is around 155mph and that local police
> departments do not like it when you do 155mph.
>
> Hunting idle?  I think everyone who THINKS they have an idle problem
> should be forced to drive a classic SE-R for a week.  Hey, at least I
> can find all my parts in the junkyard...
>
> Omer
>
> George Roffe wrote:
>>
>> ---- "Omer F. Khan" <ohmfab at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>> =============
>> .... but parts seemed to be going
>> bad at an exponential rate the last few years.
>>
>> Heh. Sounds like my friggin' BMW.
>>
>> I'm about to put my 5th PS pump in the thing (including the one it
>> came with). Those little bastards run $400 each! The shafts keep
>> breaking. I guess I should refer to it as the POS pump. ;-)
>>
>> Do you know what BMW stands for (besides POS in German....)? Bring
>> Money in a Wheelbarrow.
>>
>> George
>>
>
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