Statistics

Maintenance/Repairs
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Statistics are an ideal tool for self-delusion. A recent AAA survey found that 76% of Americans consider themselves “above average” drivers!

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Thanks irlandes; to be specific, on my 1994 Nissan Sentra with 125,000 miles so far the following items were replaced or repaired:

  1. Radiator @50,000 miles (warranty)

  2. New battery @ 65,000 miles

  3. Fix oil leaks on engine/transmission @ 70,000 miles

  4. Replace left CV joiny @ 80,000 miles

  5. Replace muffler and exhaust pipe @ 84,000 miles

  6. New radiator @ 100,000 miles

  7. New right CV joint @ 105,000 miles

  8. Headlight dimmer switch @108,000 miles

  9. New radiator @ 114,00 miles (DEX-COOL victim!)

  10. New muffler @ 117,000 miles

  11. New starter @ 120,000 miles

The car had 2 brake jobs but I count those as maintenance. As you can see, Japanese cars live up to their reputation; good electronics, long life components, and good day to day reliability.

23

Where the women are strong, the men are good looking and the children are above average.

24

Actually that was tongue in cheek.

25

Actually, I am old enough to remember that and it was a news item, not a joke. A very long time ago now, oldschool. I think as time passed it was changed into a joke because most folks didn’t know it had actually happened. Still, I am going by memory and at my age that is always dangerous.

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As someone else said, this depends upon your exact perspective, which means we are all over the place. I did not take his original posting as when all repairs are performed, but when a given car will START to need serious repairs, which will be very close to a Bell Curve, though the exact curve is uncertain. He may not have understood the significance of the question, or perhaps how we would take it.

Docnick, your Nissan must have age failures. Except for one item, the battery, which I replaced at 5 years of age, none of those repairs yet on my Sienna with 164,000 miles mostly highway driving.

I did have an intermittent canister assembly which made a nuisance of itself, but since repair has worked perfectly.

One A/F sensor did fail at I forget, I think 115,000 miles and I do not believe my car was not taken care of. Around 150,000 miles I asked here when sensors tended to fail, and got the usual answers all over the place, including never, sigh. But, someone had a good solid answer, and it was apparent most people will eventually see a sensor failure if they keep the car a long time, as I plan to do, so I had the rest replaced so I hopefully don’t have a failure out here in the boonies.