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#170 of 174 Re: Rims [imidazol97] by the_big_al

Jun 27, 2008 (4:16 pm)

Replying to: imidazol97 (Jun 21, 2006 8:18 am)
Used to live in a state where this was the norm...
 
The other thing that was also common that drives me nuts is to see a car with custom parts abound. Now granted there are some "custom parts" out there that can enhance a car's appearance, but more often than not I see it taken way overboard. Think "Fast and Furious" gone over board.
 
The obligatory 4 inch, sometimes dual exhaust (on a 4 cyl), the overly large and non functional, unpainted, cracked and barley hanging on front spoiler. The unpainted tacked on side body fenders and door body cladding. The gaudy wing that sticks up beyond the roof the car that again is not painted and adds no performance value to the car. The primered "repairs" and the chromed tailights that you can barley tell are red when they light up. And the people that drive these things think they have to race everyone to every stoplight.
 
Oh and I forgot the tacked on hood scoops....
 
If I wanted to go the other way I could also mention the pickup trucks that I see... with the over cab visor and running lights, the grab handle just outside the cab, the overly large viser vents over the doors, the thing ( I have no idea what it is called) that is bolted to the cab of the truck and sticks out over the bed (Think Avalanchish but GM did it right. It is kind of a half-bed topper sort of. Supposed to improve areodynamics. The toneau cover and the wing mounted to the back of it. The bondoed over and primered tail lights because a new LED strip was installed just just below the tailgate. The chrome everywhere scheme including (in not shaved first) the tailgate handle, the door handles, the wheel wells, and door outlines. The overtly huge tires - not mudders, but more like wide racing tires. ANd don't forget the black out covers for the headlights and turnsignals in front and the light bar attatched to the roll bar in the bed and the fog lights bolted to the grill. ALong with the cab width rear view mirror in the cab. With flamed tint on the windows. Oh yeah and tubular rear bumper and tubular step plates under the doors. And the bed rails and chromed gas cap door (I think I already mentioned chromed anything that was possible to chrome). I have actually seen a vehicle almost as I have described and they had found a way through cutting, welding, bondoing, and duct taping everything I have just mentioned. They also had the tacked on hood scoops and redone interior that recovered everything from the dash to the door panels and headliner, along with the boomin stereo to rattle all thier handiwork.

#171 of 174 another metric by steve_ HOST

Dec 21, 2012 (6:15 am)

Dusting off another dormant discussion here to spend some time yakking about the Edmunds.com NHTSA Complaints Activity Report.
 
Because consumers' descriptions and categorizations of their experiences vary, are not expressed in a consistent manner and are not adequately aggregated and analyzed by NHTSA-ODI, Edmunds recognized that there was a need to engage in a further review of the complaints and a deeper analysis of the complaints database. Edmunds did such a review and has re-categorized the complaints using new standard categories that Edmunds defined. Edmunds began with complaints submitted to NHTSA-ODI since January 1, 2005 for vehicles commencing with the 2005 model year. Edmunds continues to retrieve, review and categorize complaints data from NHTSA-ODI weekly, adding to an in-house database that now consists of more than 90,000 consumer vehicle complaints.
 

 
This month, Chrysler's 2.8 complaints per 100,000 vehicles sold is an all time low for this manufacturer in the history of our complaints reporting, which started in May 2010.

#172 of 174 Re: another metric [steve_] by uplanderguy

Dec 21, 2012 (10:21 am)

Replying to: steve_ (Dec 21, 2012 6:15 am)
What's going on at Nissan?

#173 of 174 Re: another metric [uplanderguy] by steve_ HOST

Dec 21, 2012 (10:37 am)

Replying to: uplanderguy (Dec 21, 2012 10:21 am)
Ghosn is known as "le cost cutter". Cutting back too close to the bone perhaps?
 
Those kinds of complaints translate into warranty claims and those can come back to bite you.

#174 of 174 Re: another metric [steve_] by berri

Dec 21, 2012 (7:00 pm)

Replying to: steve_ (Dec 21, 2012 10:37 am)
Personally, even when there was more difference between Japan and Detroit, I always felt Nissan was closer to Detroit than Japan. They just seemed to start losing some of their edge after renaming from Datsun. It seems to me that Nissan's tend to have more owner complaints around 60K than Toyota and Honda. That seems to even be the case in these blogs. Some of their new seats are pretty nice though.

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