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Automotive News & Views What is "wrong" with these new subcompacts?
8700 messages, Last post on Dec 08, 2009 at 7:41 PM
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Replying to: ateixeira (Dec 12, 2007 11:59 am)
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Replying to: boaz47 (Dec 12, 2007 12:18 pm) They replaced an overpriced bloated sporty looking car with an inexpensive bloated sporty looking car. That is the Celica's replacement. I would still rather have a Civic, personally.
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Replying to: lilengineerboy (Dec 12, 2007 1:22 pm) You've got THAT right. I was so disappointed in the tC. Honda would do it better if they chose to reenter that market. The Prelude was a great car! 
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Replying to: dromedarius (Dec 12, 2007 2:03 pm)
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Replying to: lilengineerboy (Dec 12, 2007 2:27 pm)
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Replying to: boaz47 (Dec 12, 2007 2:38 pm) Aah, the humiliation. A HondaOhhhhhhhhhmmmmmmHonda being dragged home by a 330,000 mile 1968 Dart!  Okay, to be fair, it was this kid's fault for hooking up a sound system that the alternator and battery couldn't keep up with, but still, the irony was kinda cute.  Kinda like another time when we had three drivers: One of 'em looked kinda like Hyde from "That 70's Show", would giggle over nothing, and drove a Ford Ranger. The other was this emaciated, anti-social dude who always seemed paranoid and as it turned out, sold drugs on the side. He drove a Chevy Celebrity station wagon. And then there was me with my Dart. Within the same week, all of our cars died. The Celebrity blew its engine, the Ranger crapped its tranny, and the Dart, which died completely one night and then fired up later, as if possessed, only to die again 2 days later, simply needed a new set of $2.98 points. Ah, those were the good old days of cheap gas, where you could drive whatever you wanted and whined when it got over maybe $1.30 per gallon. I guess if I tried that delivery routine these days I'd be delivering in a hybrid!
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Replying to: andre1969 (Dec 12, 2007 4:26 pm) Was it a four cylinder? Didn't they have a head gasket leak develop unless you did the recommended remove valve cover and retorque the center two head bolts? A neighbor had one do that. I believe they even had a replacement set of head bolts to use for that application. >simply needed a new set of $2.98 points. What was it with points wearing out? I had a Mustang 289 that went through points about every 8 thousand miles. Plugs went a little longer. |
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Replying to: imidazol97 (Dec 12, 2007 6:50 pm) |
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Replying to: imidazol97 (Dec 12, 2007 6:50 pm) As for the points, I'd always heard that they should be replaced every 12,000 miles. Once I started delivering pizzas in that Dart, I lost track of just how fast the miles were racking up. I had changed them in 1994, when the car had maybe 280,000 miles on it. So, no big shock, I guess, when I was pushing 320-325,000, and the dang things fried in late 1996. 
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