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From: "paul stenquist"
Subject: Re: Consumer Reports on "cool cameras"
I rarely got letters from consumers -- with two
notable exceptions. Honda and Peugeot. Honda owners were very distraught
about recurring head gasket problems on Civics. But they always prefaced
their complaint with praise for their car and a profession of deep love.
They were all sure that they're car was an exception and all the other
Hondas were problem free. Peugeot owners had myriad problems, and once in
a while one of them would search out my phone number and call me. They
were begging for help. Everything went wrong with those cars. But, still,
they loved them. Go figure.
HAR!!
My wife has owned two civics. The first one was a normal 2 valve car that
was a paragon of reliability until it got hit by an early 70s full sized
Mercury Roadboat. She liked it enough that she replaced it with a CVCC
powered car.
Blown head gaskets were an annual repair, the starter gave continual
problems, as did the charging system. It also torque steered badly enough
that it was almost uncontrollable on slippery streets.
To be fair, it was a first model year for that engine, they have gotten
better.
The original CVCC design was flawed from the get go, and the local Honda
dealer didn't make any effort towards customer satisfaction, to the point
she sicced her law office on them.
She grew to hate that car with a passion because it left her stranded more
often than it got her to where she wanted to go.
Contrast this with my experiecne with a Quad4 powered Grand Am. Wonderful
car to drive, though the clutch took a bit of getting used to and the
shifter was definitely crude by the standards of what I had been driving
(BMW & Honda Accord). Unfortunately at 22,000K the chain drive to the oil
pump broke, and that was pretty much that. The car was just never fixed, and
suffered all sorts of problems, mostly atributable, I am sure, to what I
believe to be an incredibly dishonest dealer.
A friend had some sort of Peugot back in the mid 1980s, he spent more time
riding the bus than he did driving his car, which was perpetually broken.
Apparently, on the rare occassions that it did run, it was a fun little car
to drive which is why he kept it, I would have gotten tired of the one way
trips much faster than he did.
William Robb
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