Mustang love / hate

[dirtwarrior]

I will check mine

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[RagmopInKona]

That everything still works.

True, but parts fail, you have to service and fix issues, before they pyle up and lack of care turns the vehicle into a rolling p.o.s.

 

[RagmopInKona]

I have had many daily drivers many 20 years old or more and things still worked. I think QC is the major problem

You bought a car, that starts at 26k , that most of the basic parts are the same no matter if you bought a eb base or a Shelby , the suppliers are based on price points of a 26k car.
You'd have a point if it was a car with a starting price of 36k for the base car no options.
Many FORGET this fact. Has zero to do with Q/C and everything to do with price point.

 

[SL8888]

Gas tank is too small, always filling it up with 93 octane.
At the Mid-Ohio track I’m only getting 7 MPG…. BooHoo

 

[shogun32]

Gas tank is too small, always filling it up with 93 octane.
At the Mid-Ohio track I’m only getting 7 MPG…. BooHoo

do you trailer a 50 gallon drum with you?
I find it irksome that tracks charge out the nose for standard fuel. 5 cent maybe 10 cent premium over what I can buy off campus, sure. But a dollar over?

 

[SL8888]

I just drive over to a Speedway station that is nearby the track.
I drive my Shelby from my house to the track.
I do wish it had a larger fuel tank as the low fuel warning seems like it comes on not long after I fill it up

 

[Egparson202]

do you trailer a 50 gallon drum with you?
I find it irksome that tracks charge out the nose for standard fuel. 5 cent maybe 10 cent premium over what I can buy off campus, sure. But a dollar over?

Pretty close! The Shelby gets about 5.2 to 5.4 mpg on track. And the tank is only 15 gallons. So we fill up before the day and bring (6) 5 gallon fuel jugs that we use to stay about about a half tank throughout the day. Thirsty beast!

 

[DadzMach]

Boats too. Holes in the water you pour money into.

The two best days of Boat ownership. The day you get it and the day you sell it! FACT

 

[Q Tip]

Just as crazy I have a 2008 infiniti g35x that I traded a pistol for when it had 187,000 miles...it now has 233,000 miles and EVERYTHING works and burns NO oil. It's insane. Also quite quick.

 

[K4fxd]

it now has 233,000 miles and EVERYTHING works and burns NO oil. It's insane. Also quite quick.

Wait,.,... according to the King Kona this cannot be true.........

 

[Garfy]

In almost 10 years of owning my old car, a manual mazda3 with 75k at purchase, i had to replace basically the entire suspension, the entire AC 1.5 times over, all motor mounts (were all broken), a couple of window motors, many tires, brakes, and fluids. Put 200k miles on it to bring it to 270k before it was totaled. I did all this over the years, and still have the impression that it was a dependable, reliable, and cheap car to maintain, and would recommend another in a heartbeat. I say all this to add that how/how much you drive matters. Expecting no repairs in 9 years in my condition was a setup for failure in my case.

Then there are cars like a used 2007 Honda Fit we bought with 55,000 miles on it and the only thing other than oil changes, coolant & brake flushes, tires, battery, wiper blades, brake pads (all normal wearable maintenance stuff) that I had replaced on it when we sold it with about 120K miles on it were the 2 rear shocks and the condenser fan motor. Everything else was original (starter, alternator, A/C system components, power windows, ABS, electric steering system, radiator, hoses, water pump, etc.). We sold it when it was 14 years old.

 

[Garfy]

I had 20 year old cars where everything still works. Yes some maintenance was required.

You must have horseshit luck.

Something to think about; the technology in 20 year old vehicles is nowhere near what they are in current vehicles. A 2003 model of anything didn't have a whole lot of computer systems in them and the more complexity there is in something, the greater the likelihood that something will fail. I didn't have to do much on my '71 Mach 1 as it basically had power brakes and that's it. It was a carbureted engine, manual windows, wipers/lights/heater, etc. all were controlled by discrete switches.

Today's vehicles (mine is 3 years old but has 22 computer controlled electronic systems on it) have modules controlling them, like the wipers, exterior lights, interior lights, radio system, trans, engine, fuel system, etc., etc. Your headlight switch does NOT control the lights, neither does your wiper switch, etc. as those are merely inputs to a computer module (like the BCM, PCM, etc.) All you have to do is look at a modern passenger jet and all of it's control systems and I'd bet it requires more checks to keep it flying than a Cessna 172 which has very little computer modules controlling it.

 

[Gnatsum21]

Just as crazy I have a 2008 infiniti g35x that I traded a pistol for when it had 187,000 miles...it now has 233,000 miles and EVERYTHING works and burns NO oil. It's insane. Also quite quick.

I used to have a 1995 Honda Civic LX.. always ran, in the deepest Chicago winters, never let me down, never failed, never anything wrong with it, you could basically drive without oil, best car I owned. But there was a time I needed a truck. I would probably still drive it today.

 

[Sig556]

Nice fantasy world!!!!!

I'm guessing you two haven't owned many cars past warranty expiration.

They wear out. Things break/fail/stop working.

Maintenance and repairs are part of the cost of ownership. If you're going to cry about it, then you can't afford the car. And "easy and cheap" ain't got nothing to do with it.

Ah Yes! "Wise you are"

 

[Q Tip]

Another hilarity about that 08 infiniti is that it has the previous owners IPod plugged in inside the center console and IT still works and had a couple thousand killer tuned on it.

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