Overhaulin'

ARE THE NEW CARS PIECES OF SHIT?

I LOVE CARS! ALL KINDS, ESPECIALLY THE SPORT LUXERY SEDANS. I CAN IMAGINE THEM ALL FIXED UP. BUT LATELY I HAVE BEEN LOOKING ON VEHIX AND READ THE REVIEWS ON THE NEWER CARS, AS WELL AS EDMONDS. THE 08 MODELS SEEM TO ALL FUK UP, LIKE HONDA, ALTIMA, GALANT, TOYOTA. I HEARD ONE ISSUE WITH TOYOTA CAMRYS THAT THE NEWER ONES FROM 07 UP NEED NEW TIRES EVERY 20,000 MILES. CRAZY. ALL OF THESE ISSUES. ANOTHER REVIEW TOLD ME ABOUT THE ALTIMA LEAKING WATER INSIDE WITH CLOSED WIDOWS DURING A RAINFALL! CRAZY! WHATS UP WITH THAT?

Public Comments

1. Cars are made better now than they ever have been. I don't know if you were alive and/or driving back in the 1970's and 1980's, but many of those cars were pieces of crap! There are always going to be issues with anything manmade and not every model is going to be made perfectly. That is why manufacturers offer warranties on new vehicles. Stock tires on many new cars are garbage. Car manufacurers know that people don't purchase vehicles based on the type of tires it has, so they skip out and put the cheapest one's they can for the money. Most of them will still last at least 40K miles. People who only get 20K miles on their tires don't rotate them appropriately and likely don't check the air pressure a couple times a month.
2. In order to compete against the US car makers, the imports are lowering the quality standards of cars marketed in the US. In order to compete against the perceived inferior quality of US cars, they are building them better with out raising the price. High performance tires that only last 20K miles is not that odd by the way. That is why many of the replacements come with out a wear warranty. As for cars being worse now then in the good old days, it is clear you were not there, when tires lasted maybe 12000 miles or worse. Look at all those old cars with two spares on them. The tire irons to take apart a tire and patch the tube. In the "good ole days" an engine needed a valve job at least every 80K miles and that was in the 60's.
3. Ya know, Toyota Tundras are supposed to have lousy brakes, but mine now has 103,000 miles on it, and the front pads lasted to 80000 and the (original) rears are still in good shape. Anyone who can't get more than 20K out of their tires is doing something wrong. Mine lasted 65000 miles. If the car leaks, take it back and get it fixed on warranty.
4. i think they do we bought a 07 f150 not to long ago and i found out that the gas door is plastic. i have a 04 grand cherokee 01 ram, 98 dakota and a 85 ram. my 04 is pretty cheap but it runs good and is reliable. every thing else has mostly metal on it. all i know is that if my 85 dodge ram were to hit a new car it would total it and my truck would barley have any damage 6,500lbs or pure metal(not one thing on the outside is metal). dodge dakotas had a prob with them leaking by the back window during heavy rain fall. but that was do to poor sealent.
5. Since I see and work on them all day long its sad but they are.......both foreign and domestic......