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Pardon my rant -
Accord or Camry or Subaru, maybe.
We had a Caravan w/ 2.2L engine, will likely never buy another Chrylser product, period.
The stupidity of design that I found in that car amazed me.
When the parts broke, we bought new ones - they were exactly the same as what failed. No improvement to their design or manufacture.
Examples:
Emergency [foot] brake lever, stamped steel.
When it bent, we had it replaced.
Same POS stamped steel part was put in again.
It's not possible that our car was the only one where that lever failed, I would have thought they would have recognized the error and built the new parts of better materials and/or design.
Clutch cable bracket - galvanized steel - located below the windshield wiper washer reservoir on firewall.
Fluid spills. You can count on it.
Bracket rusted + bent - lost cable tension - could not shift.
Why design for failure??
A friend of a friend is a true gearhead. Builds race cars, drives an 18-wheeler.
Had a Jeep Cherokee.
Tranny failed.
Had it rebuilt, then sold the Jeep and bought a Toyota 4Runner.
Smart man.
I have no confidence that Mercedes can produce a true shift in thinking at Chrysler.
Their products are nice on the outside, impressive, look like good value for the money.
POS inside as far as I'm concerned.
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