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From: jrm@cbuxc.UUCP (John Miller)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: another strange starting problem
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Date: Fri, 13-Sep-85 08:27:56 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 13 08:27:56 1985
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> <long horror story about Datsuns>
> 
> >P.S. I traded the damn thing for a chevy
> 
> If you traded that Jap cr*p for a Chevy piece of cr*p, next time
> try a Ford piece of machinery ( :-) ).
> 
>                                         Rich Schiraldi
>                                         rruxe!bsisrs
> 
> A former Ford owner, currently a Chevy owner, and soon to be a Ford
> owner again!! :-)

I have tried two Fords. In general, they were not too bad, BUT they
had a tendency to trash their engines around 85000 miles. (No GM car
I have owned has done this, I have had several). Also, the Fords tend
to rust out a bit sooner. Around here, If you see a cloud of smoke
ahead on the freeway, it is often a Ford in need of a ring job.

In support of my statement about early rustout, compare the number of
say 66~70 GM cars visible on the highway to the number of 66~70 Fords.
There actually ARE GM cars on the road of that vintage, but there are
damn few Fords. 


By the way, I change oil and filter regularly in the 4K-5K range. So
it isn't a maintenance problem. One has to wonder *how* Ford is able 
to make an engine that actually fails at that point. I rebuilt one
of them and it looked about the same inside as GM engines. I wonder
how they do it?