Woohoo for German reliability

ribbon13

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Hardly... they are doing it of thier own free will. A company that stands up and say 'Oh shit! There might be a problem! Let us fix it' says something to me.
 

JackBurton

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Originally posted by: ribbon13
Hardly... they are doing it of thier own free will. A company that stands up and say 'Oh shit! There might be a problem! Let us fix it' says something to me.
That's there is a problem with their cars?
 

Schadenfroh

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I blame the chrysler virus, seems to have made a species jump while they were sleeping together.
 

whalen

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Originally posted by: halik
to fix problems with alternators and batteries, which do not affect the cars' safety

where did you get reliability from?

So a car is only unreliable if its unsafe? I'd consider a car unreliable if it fails to start one day... wouldn't you? :roll:
 

smithdj

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I knew those germans should not have opened an assembly plant on the east coast here. Now mercedes quality =gm, ford and chryler. Sad :(
 

tallest1

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Originally posted by: ribbon13
Hardly... they are doing it of thier own free will. A company that stands up and say 'Oh shit! There might be a problem! Let us fix it' says something to me.

Might I ask what you think of Ford and the quality of their products?
 

trmiv

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Funny, the other day I saw some lady in a brand new Mercedes broken down on the side of the road. There was a Mercedes dealer mobile support truck in back of her, looked like the mechanic was replacing the battery...
 

ElFenix

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Originally posted by: smithdj
I knew those germans should not have opened an assembly plant on the east coast here. Now mercedes quality =gm, ford and chryler. Sad :(

i thought the models assembled there weren't the issue
 

StageLeft

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Originally posted by: ribbon13
Hardly... they are doing it of thier own free will. A company that stands up and say 'Oh shit! There might be a problem! Let us fix it' says something to me.
Yeah, it says "You just paid tons of money for a car that's consistently rated as less than reliable than your son's civic!"

1.3--that must be all of them :)

 

AMDZen

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Originally posted by: Skoorb
Originally posted by: ribbon13
Hardly... they are doing it of thier own free will. A company that stands up and say 'Oh shit! There might be a problem! Let us fix it' says something to me.
Yeah, it says "You just paid tons of money for a car that's consistently rated as less than reliable than your son's civic!"

1.3--that must be all of them :)

:thumbsup:
 

Britboy

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Friend of mine has a brand new mercedes C230 sport and has had nothing but problems with it. It's been back to shop several times since he got it 6 months ago:

1. Was vibrating like crazy and ready to die in traffic - Takes it in and is told it's bad gas (he was using 93 octane as required). The idiots replaced parts but didnt drain the gas tank as corporate wouldnt reimburse them for the work.
2. Goes back in again (remember they didnt drain the gas), this time he pays them $70 to get the gas out of there. Told he can only use Shell 93 gas from now on.
3. Heavy black smoke spewing out of the exhaust, looked like a 15 year old junker. Was told the fuel mix was set incorrectly.
4. Numerous other fixes and EMS updates.

Suffice to say he is P1SSED and will never buy another mercedes.
 

Doggiedog

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Originally posted by: Britboy
Friend of mine has a brand new mercedes C230 sport and has had nothing but problems with it. It's been back to shop several times since he got it 6 months ago:

1. Was vibrating like crazy and ready to die in traffic - Takes it in and is told it's bad gas (he was using 93 octane as required). The idiots replaced parts but didnt drain the gas tank as corporate wouldnt reimburse them for the work.
2. Goes back in again (remember they didnt drain the gas), this time he pays them $70 to get the gas out of there. Told he can only use Shell 93 gas from now on.
3. Heavy black smoke spewing out of the exhaust, looked like a 15 year old junker. Was told the fuel mix was set incorrectly.
4. Numerous other fixes and EMS updates.

Suffice to say he is P1SSED and will never buy another mercedes.

LOL

My friend who is a Lexus mechanic once worked at MB and told me a lot of horror stories. One of the stupidest ones was all of these SLKs would come with the leather dashboards all curled up, dried out from the heat. I guess they didn't test out the designs before sending the cars out.
 

Baked

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/me pets his IS300. Yes, baby, I will never sell you for a german car.
 

sisq0kidd

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My mother has an E320 and sister has a c320, they both sux0rz... Nothing but problems since the day they rolled those cars off the lot... countless of times the windows have become unseated and just fell inside the door, back window shade always gets stuck, eats up gas like a mofo and never once has it made me a sandwich... :confused:
 

RbSX

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Originally posted by: ribbon13
Hardly... they are doing it of thier own free will. A company that stands up and say 'Oh shit! There might be a problem! Let us fix it' says something to me.

True. Better than ford.. oops 10 people dead MAYBE we should recall our car.
 

RbSX

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Originally posted by: sisq0kidd
Originally posted by: Baked
/me pets his IS300. Yes, baby, I will never sell you for a german car.

/me pets baked :confused:

/me pets my jaguar.. sh!tty japanese luxury cars. buncha wannabees.