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To: mph who wrote (371950)	7/7/2010 2:55:19 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793912

I have a Dodge RAM which has had several maintenance issues that I consider to be poor design or faulty parts that wear out or fail precipitously while underway. Same with my Chrysler New Yorker, which I no longer have. My son has a two one ton Fords, one as a work truck and the other as his recreational/normal travel. Both have had failures that are considerable trouble, owing to faulty parts that fail unexpectedly. The work truck, for example, has no less than four sensors in the exhaust system required by EPA regulations, any one of which failing will send a message to the console to pull over safely, after which the thing will not start. Usually this is way out of town, so the thing has to get towed. Most of these things are the result of hypercomplexity, cost cutting, planned obsolescence, and government regulations, as in the four sensors in my son's exhaust system. My son also has a jeep, the very same that I drove in college for four years. It had a four banger then; now it has a V-8 and is pretty well upgraded to cherry. He has no trouble with it, other than it being stolen twice, and there are huge catalogs of aftermarket parts that he can keep it going forever. I'm ready to go back to the 60s jeeps and just keep them going to get away from all this modern crap that purrs along and then fails all at once with no warning.