Re: Royal Reliability -reply

[Paul_Royal@idx.com]

To:   quattro

7.7 in repairs alone....hmmmm.....
+ depreciation....about $7000....that's another 8.5
plus tires, oil, and not included maintenance items....yeah whatever...I've
 done the math, and
I wasn't born yesterday...it's around .17-18 cents a mile less gas and
insurance.....

still a better deal than almost any comparable new car....this is just my
own _personal_ worst experience....
....that's all...my expectations for reliability are higher based upon my
own personal experience.....
.........case closed

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>>Last car incurred half the trouble and maintenance costs over 243K miles.
>>>An Audi 5Ks with an automatic!!!! no less.....
>>>Car before that...a Volkwagon Rabbit.
>>>First repair over $100 occurred at 160,000 miles.
>>>Add the numbers...I haven't included tires...the only routine items
Iincuded
>>>>were timing belt and belts in my figures...a transmission failure
thatwould
>>>cost over $5,000 w/o the aid of junkyard is inexcusable.
>>>>I told you I expected a lot.  Maybe my expectations are unreasonable,
but
>>>from my own experience and the opinions of most others I've talked to...
>>>well...they're glad it ain't theirs.

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