What's up today (bullchiting) thread.

Thank you sir.

They thought the water was a leak and looked for one, but maybe it's just ran dry? Could still be a leak.

Not much sense in me going home till grandmother's 100%. Liable to catch it and pass it back and forth. Grandfather seems to hardly ever get sick, and he still smokes like a tilt.

I did get a major clean up done at moms. 18 garbage bags this evening.

 

Don't bring Toyota into this. The timing belt change in the 3.5 Honda v6 is more arduous and costly than the yota equivalent.

Honda NVH as well as fit and finish have taken a hit since the mid 90s . There's also issues with their 4 cylinders in civics using a lot of oil due to oil control rings not holding up. Some even lunch themselves like a co-worker 's 03 civic with less than 150k on it. Honda only recently started to get their quality back, but slowly. I'd rather buy a Hyundai or kia. Honda still has issues with automatic transmissions behind v6 engines, even the newest 9 spd auto available in the pilot.
Plus, the Pilot and Ridgeline are based on the Odyssey minivan chassis. I'm not fine with that. Some people are.

Granted as we've all mentioned, no brand is immune from problems.

 

would you consider a yugo?

 

Yep. I agree fully


If you can't get 200k out of a car these days without major repairs, it's a POC. Once you get to 200k, it's earned it's keep.
If it only gets to 100k it's a steaming POS before major repairs.

 

For a while a lot of people I knew were buying high mileage cars from Pennsylvania. The roads were good and many used them on long commutes to work. Three year old cars with 100-120k+ miles were not unusual. They seemed to last a good long time after buying them.

 

Lol.

Never. Those broke down a ton, and parts were expensive and rare. You'd be better off with a Ferrari or Lamborghini.

 

Glad to hear she is on the mend.

 

Our neighbor/distant cousin had a 2007 Silverado classic. 351K miles, Hardly any rust even being a generation known for unusually bad rust issues, still couldn't hear the engine running, and the thing even had original u-joints. for a good while he drove to town and back every day, 120 mile round trip a day.

He picked up a ram the same age but only about 120K miles, and a few months later at 130K miles or so, he was into the thing for 10K bucks and wished he'd put 10K bucks in the chevy.

I told mom about it, as she put it, he got a ram and he's been getting rammed in the wallet ever since.....hahah

 

All they were was Czeck made Fiats. They made them in garage type manufacturing facilities. It was unbelievable.

 

Haha. I have a pile of yugo cruise control units lying around. I tore down my chimney a few years ago.

A guy somewhere here on the island won a lamborghini worth 350K bucks a while back. I believe he put her in the ocean the same day......

 

Thank you sir.

 

Yup, I don't doubt it.

One thing about Pennsylvania, they don't let you get away with abusing a vehicle, they like their inspections and won't let rust buckets stay on the road. Probably why you see a fair amount of clean vehicles from PA, despite them using salt in winter.

 

That belt change in the Honda is $800-$1200. I haven’t done ours yet. I won’t try it on my own. Did ours ourselves on the 2000 Civic and that was not bad. The auto transmission issue on the V6s was from overheating. The fix was to drill a hole in the case and put a pipe on the second gear to drip tranny fluid on it. Some factory fix, huh.

Right now Hyundai and Kia are higher rated than Honda. Toyota still is number one. I don’t think I’ll buy a Honda again.

 

Actually, they don't use nearly the salt that NY does. They use a lot of sand and small gravel. When we worked across state lines years ago, HAD to make sure we had glass coverage on insurance.

Replace one windshield per year because of kicked up rocks/gravel.

 

Yes a former coworker paid 900 for a timing belt change on his 3.5 Odyssey. While it's a different engine class, the timing belt change on our 4.7 V8 4runner was less than half that, professionally installed.

 

Our town used a lot of gravel and sand mixed with salt and I never got stuck on a bad hill. They used to send the street sweeper in the spring to take the gravel off the road. I had to rake out six inches deep of gravel on my lawn two feet in into the street so they’d clean it up. I also used to shovel some in buckets for the driveway. Looked like we had a dirt and gravel road until April every year. Now they use that spray on salt before a storm then salt the crap out of the roads once it starts. It washes out into the reservoir where we get our water from. Never had the water tested for salt though.

 

I think that’s cause there are two belts on the Honda.

 

I knew they used some salt from being on truck forums, but I did think it's wasn't as bad as NY. Of course, even going place to place within states probably makes a difference in that regard, I know it does here.

Oh, speaking of hardly using machines, a guy on a f150 forum I'm on, was saying how he bought an older low mileage car from an old lady. Remarked that she must have drive to church on sundays. She says no, to the liquor store in saturdays! He said that sold him on the car

 

As long as the rest of our VW 2.0 holds up I won’t have to worry about a belt. It has a chain. Ours was the year they fixed the tensioner problem, so it should stay on the sprockets. I think they say to change it at something like 240k.

 

Not crazy about the end of that post NortheastAl

I also hear that these days they're spraying the roads with a lot of the fracking brine. Can't say as that's too good for water quality either.

Our "town" uses sand/salt mix as well.
Doesn't bother me at all, heck I shoveled a lot of it up to make horseshoe pits years ago.