Ferrari Mailing List: Re: The cars we love to hate (No F content no way)

[LarryT (l02turner]

   Good point about protecting the investment.  but given the level 
of economical education/practical sense we see I guess it's to be
expected.   I had a similar conversation with a customer when I had 
a MB parts & accessory business - he had a friend who owned a 560SEL 
with 80k miles (IICR) but had never changed the oil!  His "logic" 
was - if a car costs $80 thousand $$s it shouldn;t *need* oil 
changes!

   Un-freakin' believable!   But a true story.  Whenever I think 
about buying a used car I always think about that guy and hope I'm 
not buying something from him!

   I remember when I saw my 1st 930 Turbo, on I-10 in Houston - the 
filthiest car I'd ever seen - with pieces of bodywork loose and 
flapping in the breeze!  This was back when they were 1st available 
in the US so it was a fairly new car.  Guess it  could have been 
stolen?

Sincerely,
Larry T  (74 911, 91 300D 2.5T)
www.youroil.net Oil Analysis Kits & Porsche Posters/Weber parts
Test Results - http://members.rennlist.com/oil/

http://www.scamfreetop10.com/1233.html


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rick Lindsay" <rolindsay [at] yahoo.com>
To: "Larry Turner" <l02turner [at] comcast.net>
Cc: "The FerrariList" <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 12:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] The cars we love to hate (No F content no 
way)


>   Like many cars in this class - and even the really up-scale 
> cars - the performance and reliability is usually related to the 
> owner's maintenance schedule.  I'd bet that your Metro has been 
> maintained properly since new.  And I don't mean that you have 
> treated it gently.  I mean that you have probably just kept to a 
> regular maintenance schedule and fixed things RIGHT any time you 
> have had a problem.  Given that kind of approach, most cars will 
> run almost forever.
>   Sadly, here in the States, most drivers equate the word 
> 'maintenance' to the word 'repairs' when in actuality, maintenance 
> is what you do to MINIMIZE the need for repairs.
>   As you can probably tell, this is a soap-box issue for me.  For 
> most people, their automobile is the second biggest purchase they 
> ever make.  So with that given, why do people treat their cars 
> like CRAP?!
>   I stop for a coffee on the way to work most mornings.  There's 
> often a woman there whose car is filled with TRASH up to the 
> windows - passenger seat and back seat!  I'm talking everything 
> from old MacDonald's bags to underwear!  Its like a filled 
> dumpster!  And I bet the car has never seen an oil change!  This 
> example, while pathetically funny, is certainly an end-member of 
> the spectrum.  But even if one has zero-point-zero interest in a 
> car, wouldn't you think that they would at least protect their 
> investment?!
>   By contrast, my daily driver looks and performs the way it left 
> the factory.  That's not to say that my wife won't eat snacks in 
> the car or pull hair from her hairbrush and throw it on the floor! 
> And she wonders why we always drive HER car on the weekends! :-P
>
> Happy Wednesday!
>
> rick
>
> --- On Wed, 2/25/09, Stephen Sherman <sherman [at] wildblue.net> wrote:
> > My 89 Geo Metro just turned 140,000 miles on yeaterday
> > bought it new in 89
> > an has been rock solid. I run 70 most of the with jumps to
> > 80. It is the
> > little engine that could.
> > Looking into a plug in or hybrid to replace it but it will
> > go to one our
> > daughter's children.
> >
> > Stephen
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