Originally posted by SVT25: I think his name says it all. "Cheapest GL around" maybe if you put some money into it it would have lasted a little longer.
What would you have done, if your good Contour got destroyed a week before you lost your job? I got a fixer-upper for less than half of the insurance payment.
(Now I've got a better income than ever, and am looking to buy new.)
Anyway, the reason I don't want any more Ford engines is not just because the cheap one that got trashed by its previous owner had a failure, but because the good one I had before, which was properly taken care of, also had a major engine failure... at less than 70000 miles, with every sign that the failure was due to corners cut during manufacturing. We repaired it, but still. Two in a row is at least one too many.
That's actually the third catastrophic engine failure I've had; the third was an eighties Mitsubishi. Since then it's become clear that Mitsubishi is the one Japanese brand whose cars are less reliable than Detroit's. Now that Chrysler has cut off their allowance, I wouldn't be surprised if Mitsubishi ends up driven out of the car business entirely.
. . . Two zetec Contours, two blown head gaskets... for some reason I have a Japanese car now.
anybody in California want a Diehard Gold 100 month battery? inquire by PM.
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