On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 14:14:01 -0500, "J. Clarke"
wrote:

I don't recall any brake problems with any car that I've owned--my Dad's
pickup truck needed a new brake line once but it was 20 years old and he
snagged it on a stump.


And you don't drive in the "salt belt"
Up here EVERY manufacturer has brake problems. Deteriorating rotors
are tha main problem, due to salt getting into the pads.



Actually, from my experience, EXTREMELY durable. When you can get over
400,000km out of the low end tercel with no mechanical failures, one
clutch change, 2 timing belts and a set of axle joints, I have no
complaints. Or 600,000 on a '91 Civic VX with only a pair of front
axle bearings, a distributor, and an alternator bearing. AC still
works, and still has the original belt on it. Can't call that fragile,
the way that car gets driven.

Everybody gets lucky once in a while.

You call 600 cars a year for ten years lucky???

My own Tecel and my buddy's Civic are just 2 examples.

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