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matthewsmith
Joined: 31 Aug 2010 Posts: 1
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Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2010 2:42 am Post subject: For Audi and BMW owners : |
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or Audi and BMW owners : How would you rate your car's reliability compared to Japanese cars?
I guess it helps if you've owned a Japanese car before but yeah... I just love the styling and performance of Audis and BMW cars but always hear /read about reliability issues. Is this really true? ![Sad](images/smiles/icon_sad.gif) |
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Henry
Joined: 03 Apr 2001 Posts: 2878 Location: NYC
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Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2010 6:14 pm Post subject: |
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Henry
Joined: 03 Apr 2001 Posts: 2878 Location: NYC
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Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2010 6:14 pm Post subject: |
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When parts wear out replace them. And the German parts and labor are expensive. However, aftermarket firms such as Bavarian Autosports, BMP
Design and Pelican Parts to name only 3 have OEM parts without the rondel for much less money. If you are handy you can do a lot for etc..
Anyway, if it's help, I've found that this stuff comes in plateaus and at certain mileages
Finally, A BMW will be of sound body and engine will perform fantastically, if well maintained, into the higher mileage ranges. My 3 series has 227K and it runs like a clock and as tight as a bank vault. So, was the dough worth it. I say yes. Most guys with Japaze cars are onto their next one.
I don't know anything about Audis. A friend has one and it breaks a lot but some say the same for bmw's.
Oh...safety. I believe, with all my soul, that bmw's are safer than jagazee cars. They handle like stink at high speeds...umm spell that high speeds as sometimes very high. BM's turn this and that way, around just about anything, I've run some really weird and very dangerous stuff. The car tracked true. I expect a Japanee car would be sushi under same conditions.
BM's are really strong and really safer. Saved my life and those of many others.
Look at it this way...German cars, bmw's are made to run safely and flat out all day long...this means turning turns, stopping stopps, all from top speed. And than they are expected to do the same the next day and the day after that and the year after that.
Can you say the same for Japanese cars?
I like bmw's. Period. |
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idanity
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Joined: 21 May 2005 Posts: 3097 Location: N.W.U.S.A.
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Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2011 2:38 am Post subject: |
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..88 toyota 4x4 truck
1st off, the odometer STOPPED working at 350,000 miles, and i have no idea when it stopped.
its brought me home w/out a fuel pump.
i drove it 90 miles on a freeway doing 60 with ONE bolt holding the entire driveline on....(in fact,i bought it this way, and didn't realise this until i got it home)
i hydro locked it, (sunk it to its windows in a river) and just pulled the plugs, shot out the water by starting it...reset the plugs, drove it home, (50 + miles btw)
been everywhere any truck could go, and still truckin.
gotta say, the 80's toyota trucks are legendary.
more to the point, i would like to state, that there is a TIME for every manufacturer...as they have good and bad.
you (or anyone) cannot lump a country or region, you have to ask specifically, or just look at stats.
look up "toyota wars" and you will find a 80 toyota truck.
never left me stranded, _________________
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