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Cars and car troubles

I hate those who cry that they wished the cars did not have all the new electronics..."I wish they would go back to contact point ignitions...I could work on those"...yeah,because you had to...adjust the points every 6,000 miles and replace the points and plugs every 12,000 miles...or pay a blue collar "thief" to do it for you...yeah,the good old days...laughs
 
Gene Grimm said:
I hate those who cry that they wished the cars did not have all the new electronics..."I wish they would go back to contact point ignitions...I could work on those"...yeah,because you had to...adjust the points every 6,000 miles and replace the points and plugs every 12,000 miles...or pay a blue collar "thief" to do it for you...yeah,the good old days...laughs
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Reminds me of replacing and gapping the plugs on my MG. A different era....I can't do much of anything on my Toyota. Just not bright enough...but then those plugs won't need replacing until I get to 100k!
 
crappy old carbs,junk chokes,drum brakes pulling and fading,manual steering and brakes,windup windows...yes ,oh the joys...I am highly fond of Toyotas...if Honda made a real truck,I would own one,but Toyota does so that is my choice
 
Gene Grimm said:
crappy old carbs,junk chokes,drum brakes pulling and fading,manual steering and brakes,windup windows...yes ,oh the joys...I am highly fond of Toyotas...if Honda made a real truck,I would own one,but Toyota does so that is my choice
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I so wish they still made those smaller trucks...
 
My opinion is that Honda makes the best common vehicle today and Toyota makes the second best...the rest are all somewhere below them...My older yoda trucks are impressive machines...I used several until they rusted in half
 
no one dropping caravans on you (top Gear destruction test on a Toyota land cruiser) they were not able to kill it.
 
Gene Grimm said:
My opinion is that Honda makes the best common vehicle today and Toyota makes the second best...the rest are all somewhere below them...My older yoda trucks are impressive machines...I used several until they rusted in half
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Hmmmmm. I owned a Honda Civic for 12 years. Made in Japan too. Was very disappointed with everything that failed. (Long list)

I've had my Celica GTS for 14 years...only important component I ever needed to replace was a water pump. The cassette deck capstans died at nine years along with the original battery.

Not sure though about newer vehicles of either company....but maybe I won't live long enough to need another car!
 
Gene Grimm said:
HaHa!...the firecracker...laughs...those lawsuits made Ford make many changes they still have in place today...the original GM turd car was the Vega if you want to pick on my brand
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Don't know why the Pinto caught all the flack, lots of cars had the same issue back then. My 66 Mustang has a gas tank 2 inches from the rear bumper which is pretty much purely decorative.
 
I have an '86 4Runner and another '85 project truck that is 4x4 air conditioned and diesel with a California Custom step side fiberglas bed...the project truck has the live front axle,an '87 body with a fiberglas power bumped hood made from an old chevy cavalier hood...I intend to run it on old frenchfry grease...we already ran a VW Rabbit diesel on vegetable oil tight out of the bottle...bio-diesel is too messy to continue to play with it...and yes, I am not so sure of the latest offerings myself...most of my Honda customers had positive experiences,the repairs were expensive,but not very often...don't ask me about the american junk...I have few good words for them
 
I used to love the old 4Runners.....but hate the new ones.....and their prices.
 
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"Don't know why the Pinto caught all the flack, lots of cars had the same issue back then. My 66 Mustang has a gas tank 2 inches from the rear bumper which is pretty much purely decorative."

Nader picked on the Corvair...that was a GM accounting mistake...it would have cost just $18 for a swaybar the engineers said it needed but the bean counters said no...Pinto took a hit because of lawyers and Chevy had the truck gastank issue...the doors fell off the Mopars and AMC made a lot of scrap...they all made mistakes and we got shafted...again...Money ruined this country and maybe the entire world...money is evil
 
Gene Grimm said:
"Don't know why the Pinto caught all the flack, lots of cars had the same issue back then. My 66 Mustang has a gas tank 2 inches from the rear bumper which is pretty much purely decorative."

Nader picked on the Corvair...that was a GM accounting mistake...it would have cost just $18 for a swaybar the engineers said it needed but the bean counters said no...Pinto took a hit because of lawyers and Chevy had the truck gastank issue...the doors fell off the Mopars and AMC made a lot of scrap...they all made mistakes and we got shafted...again...Money ruined this country and maybe the entire world...money is evil
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True, there were a lot of lousy cars built back then. It took Japan to turn around the US auto industry. Other than rusting out, Japanese cars ran circles around US cars.
 
the Pinto metal fuel neck failed in those crashes...the Mustang was isolated with a rubber hose that most often only collapsed and did not spill fuel...Ford had many fuel safety devices after the lawsuits,including heavy guards over their mechanical fuel pumps that mostly got thrown away when a new pump was bolted back on...they were cumbersome to reinstall and considered unnecessary to put back on by most...no other cars had them...they were silly in fact...if the wreck was severe enough to break a pump off the engine,you most likely were going to die of other injuries first...I rode in cars with no factory seatbelts and a child seat was not invented yet...I have a scar on my forehead from being launched from the package shelf of a '56 Mercury and hitting a two gallon steel oil can in a panic stop as a three year old...I rode in the footwell beside the seat in '58 ford truck as we crammed a family of 6 in it to go see Grandma...times were different in the 60s,but we survived to talk about it
 
I did quite a lot of collision work over the years and have seen a lot of wrecked vehicles...the towing business placed me at many accident scenes and I saw what went on in those wrecks too...I have seen seatbelts kill and general craziness over the years...stupidity kills more often than the car itself failing,much as guns don't kill people,mental disorders do...but that is a topic I will not further discuss here..."genius is finite,stupidity is infinite" or however Einstein said it
 
my latest fear is relying on the car to stop you if you are going to back into something...that will just create more careless driving and less attention to driving....backup cameras are cool,auto braking is not...a meat puppet should always be in direct control...I remember people complaining about antilock brakes,claiming that the brakes let them enter an intersection instead of stopping them short of it...they were designed to keep the car steering,not to compensate for stupidity...if the brakes let you thru the intersection,you were still going too fast to stop anyway...the autonimous driven car is a horrible idea as there will be no more judgement needed and you will have to rely on the electronics to keep you safe...electronics never fail,computers never crash and the world is all sunshine and rainbows...laughs
 
I saw a lot of rollover wrecks as the cars here got faster and the handling improved...our older cars had the tires screaming as the adhesion was lost that warned you that things were about to change...the newer cars do not do that as much and when adhesion is lost,it is lost abruptly with little warning usually resulting in dire consequences...low profile tires and stiffer suspensions are to blame for that
 
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