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From: andrew@grkermi.UUCP (Andrew W. Rogers)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: tale of woe - headlight retractor motor for 83 Celica
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Date: Wed, 18-Sep-85 17:50:20 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 18 17:50:20 1985
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In article <338@cbuxc.UUCP> jrm@cbuxc.UUCP (John Miller) writes:
>
>The 82 Stanza I owned (note the past tense) "let me down" in the middle
>of a 4 lane highway. When I say let me down, I mean I was flying along 
>at or above the speed limit of 55 and the engine cut out completely.
>
> [explanation of incident, mild flame about price of parts]
>
>	4) I traded that car at about 80K miles, mainly because I was scared
>	   to death of anything *major* breaking on it! Minor items and costs:
>	   carb - 800$, complete distributor - 600$, can you imagine he price
>	   of a major item?
>
>
>A lot of yuppies (pardon the term) are buying these cars because Consumer
>Reports writes nice things about them, because the are truely nice to drive
>and look expensive and whatever reason - I am sure the market people know
>best.

*Yuppies* driving *Japanese* cars?  No self-respecting Yuppie would be
seen in public driving anything non-European!  My gawd, that would be almost
as tacky as owning something (shudder) *American*!!!   :-)

>Considering the cost to fix them if you are one of the unlucky ones
>I can't help wondering if the Japanese are still fighting the war.

I own an RX-7 and agree with you about the cost of parts.  What I can't
figure out is why parts are so expensive when the cars themselves are
priced quite competitively - especially when you consider that the US
automakers are turning to Japan for parts to save money!

If you think you've got it bad, though - my sister-in-law's Mercedes just
ate its fuel pump.  The local Mercedes dealer quoted her $900 + labor!
I know of another MB owner who paid $1300 for A/C repairs, and a Jaguar
XK-E owner who paid $800 for a water pump!

AWR