I don't make up a lot of stuff. Some people like to make stuff up, I like the world of what I can see and what I know. I Try not to generalize outside of my expertise. I think some people just like to challenge and love to dig back and say, check it out, you SAID this so it must be the case. Fine--I've changed my view on a lot of things in my life; why stop now? Look at the petty nitpicking that people pull off about stupid things. I could say 4.75qt as the B230F oil capacity, and I'd get ten responses, two of them nasty or condescending, about how it is 4.68 quarts, or how it is an even 4.5 quarts with filter, or whatever. Mostly for the sake of arguement.

I still don't think it's fair to dump on an entire car beacuse ONE particular car is problematic. People HATE the diesels, for example. I had a good experience with my own D24 (250k), but it doesn't stop me from telling people that they can be a HORRIBLY problematic beast. That is true, evidenced by a lot of diesels in the junkyards. Ditto the B234F. I've seen them past 200k. But I've also seen them (lots of them) with trashed engines. At much earlier mileage.

The indestructable B230F. My sister put a rod through the block. I killed an M47 trans personally and have seen others that have died hard deaths.

Yeh... fuel pumps. As I understand they dump around 100k or so, but I haven't seen that to be the case. SOmeone must be replacing them... but not me. Still on my own car, I'll probably replace mine if I keep it to 100k miles. But there again, my dad is running 170k with the same in-tank pump. (Which, now will appropriately take a dump tomorrow, ruining my weekend.)

Even if they are 100k pieces, they are pretty cheap compared--for example--to the single pump Audi systems or such setups. Which can also die hard deaths.

Or the Ford Exploder pumps. If you even made it to 100k (more like 50), chances are, you took a right turn and it fried. Adds new meaning to the frequently spoken service writer's comment "they all do that".

Yep.

I guess the Grand Cherokees were chowing fuel pumps at $500-800 apiece. Some pissed off people were coming out of the service lanes.

It could be much worse than $130 for a fuel pump for a Volvo. There are a lot of people on this board who would get along well with my brother. He thinks "Vehicle Maintenance" should cost $20/year. One oil change. Oh, wait... last time I changed his oil, he paid me $15, so I had to actually underwrite the cost of materials.

And then maybe $200 for any "major" work, per year. Miraculously, he gets by on it. I tend to be more forgiving about car maintenance and dictate a large amount of money towards prevention and repairs. Therefore a $100 difference between a pile of Bosch parts and a bunch of Rex/Regina parts is hardly anything I'd be mindful of. That's just where I'm coming from. Shit costs money one way or another.


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1992 940 wagon, very low miles
as well as others.