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Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech Subject: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: Products made crappy for you Date: Mon, 13 May 2024 20:45:12 -0500 Organization: Yellow Jersey, Ltd. Lines: 43 Message-ID: <v1ufn7$3tjhr$2@dont-email.me> References: <RF50O.96359$Y79f.80394@fx16.iad> <_380O.223142$oNU.191033@fx15.ams4> <ed90O.14082$yT%1.4242@fx33.iad> <v1sq4c$3djon$1@dont-email.me> <_uw0O.53411$A1d8.8776@fx47.iad> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 14 May 2024 03:45:11 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="f80f07b365621a2ca670fdd77117340c"; logging-data="4116027"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19//BuGd6fE1HjGGEPcokNz" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:bRDHjaU9RbOrWNbbi84vqLlxLMI= In-Reply-To: <_uw0O.53411$A1d8.8776@fx47.iad> Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 3076 On 5/13/2024 5:29 PM, Tom Kunich wrote: > On Mon May 13 12:30:35 2024 Rolf Mantel wrote: >> Am 12.05.2024 um 22:00 schrieb Tom Kunich: >>> On Sun May 12 18:42:02 2024 Roger Merriman wrote: >>>> Tom Kunich <cyclintom@yahoo.com> wrote: >>>>> Why doi you suppose someone would buy a Mercedes or a BMW which >>>>> are very poorly made vehicles for their price? I have been buying >>>>> used vehicles and Ford Taurus are dirt cheap and will drive >>>>> 250,000 miles with little major repairs. >>>>> >>>>> Compare this to the 100,000 miles on a Mercedes. Or less for a >>>>> BMW. Of course you lose the status of paying $75,000 for a car >>>>> designhed to break down and leave you in the middle of nowhere. >>>>> >>>> >>>> I?m not aware of either Mercedes or BMW being practically >>>> mechanically unreliable, quite the reverse in fact. >>>> >>>> As ever different cars for different purposes and so on, see also >>>> bikes for similar purposes and rather more on topic and frankly >>>> interesting. >>> >>> Kelly Blue Book rates Mercedes the #1 least reliable car. Now you >>> have to temper that with the fact that Mercendes owners rarely keep a >>> car more than five years so unless they are extremely heavy auto >>> users you can't find many new car buyers complaining. >> >> Taxi drivers in Germany reported even in the 1980's their Merc going >> easily over 500,000 miles, when most other cars were lucky reaching 100,000. > > > > > Taxi Companies tend to take exceptional care of their cars which is unlike American drivers who may never even change the oil. This is so common that my car has an automatic message to change oil. A friend has a new Mercedes. There's no dipstick and no place to add oil. The electronics signal when to 'return to dealer for service'. -- Andrew Muzi am@yellowjersey.org Open every day since 1 April, 1971