On Saturday, August 1, 2020 at 8:43:18 PM UTC-4, Tim Schwartz wrote:
On 8/1/2020 6:11 PM, Trevor Wilson wrote:
On 2/08/2020 3:53 am, Chuck wrote:
On Fri, 31 Jul 2020 13:14:41 -0700, John Robertson
wrote:

On 2020/07/31 11:59 a.m., Terry Schwartz wrote:
On Thursday, July 30, 2020 at 1:36:58 PM UTC-5, Martin James Smith
wrote:
Hi all,

Say I wanted to buy the most reliable new compact car on the market
right now, the one least likely to ever break down on me in the
future, what would it be?

cheers,

MS

Is "reliablest" even a word?


How is the Lada doing these days? I recall when everyone was talking
about the little Russian car...

John ;-#)#
When I was in Iceland in 2000, there were quite a few Ladas on the
road plus Lada Nivas (a sturdy 4 wheel drive jeep-like vehicle.) A
documentarian,who filmed on the country's glaciers, claimed they were
far more reliable than Jeeps.


**Yeah, well, that doesn't mean much. Jeeps are always at or near the
bottom of the list in reliability surveys. They often swap positions
with Fiat and Alfa.

Well, now that FIAT owns Chrysler who owns Jeep, some Jeeps (I believe
the Renegade in the US market) are MADE by FIAT, - in Italy, and shares
a platform with one of the FIAT 500 SUV's, so why wouldn't Jeep be right
up there with FIAT?

Best regards,
Tim Schwartz
Bristol Electronics
I've owned 4 jeeps (grand Cherokees) over the last 25 years. Each model suffered from a unique set of component reliability issues...took me a while to finally ditch them. I live in the rust belt and was appalled to see my last vehicle significantly eaten away by rust in combination with nagging brake issues and the infamous death wobble (DW) due to their 'unique' front steering design.
An interesting story - a few years after Daimler bought Chrysler I was at the dealer parts desk getting some factory only fasteners and crankshaft position sensor. The parts fellow had a hell of a time finding the right fasteners in the system. He related the story to me that one of the first things Daimler did was look across all the Chrysler vehicles and inventoried the fastener types. Something on the order of 150K+ different ones. To save a bunch of money, Daimler standardized the fasteners across all the products down to something like 30K (numbers aren't accurate but the percentage reduction is, afaicr).