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That reminds me, if anyone cares to comment. The old Chrysler slant 6 engines were supposed to last forever....and I recall Chrysler used it for many cars. It was a good engine in the Dart and Scamp, and other Chryslers, and those were good cars.
Then they updated to bring out the Volare and Aspens and those cars were disasters. Completely unreliable. What went wrong?
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Pretty much like this....that's when cars were cars, and men were men, and ...............
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That reminds me, if anyone cares to comment. The old Chrysler slant 6 engines were supposed to last forever....and I recall Chrysler used it for many cars. It was a good engine in the Dart and Scamp, and other Chryslers, and those were good cars.
Then they updated to bring out the Volare and Aspens and those cars were disasters. Completely unreliable. What went wrong?
My recollection of early 70s cars was that they all had drivability problems and terrible build quality. The Volare got Chrysler in trouble with the NYS Attorney General who sued them for fenders that rusted. I remember because I used the AG's action as a club when Chrysler was slow to fix a problem with my Omni.
Never understood the upset about rusting fenders since they all did that in the days when inner fenders were for luxury cars only. It was actually kind of cool to see rooster tails erupting through the front fenders on rainy days.
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I always liked those! They looked like Chrysler copied GM designs. Of course they were huge cars. And likely made with the usual crummy Chrysler build quality of that era. But they looked nice.
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Mike! Hang in there, let's hope for s quick in and out this time
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An Omni! There must be a story there. Weren't they really a VW Rabbit? If I remember correctly, most Omni's were pretty fragile, but every once in awhile one would last and last.
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One day when the rear window defroster was on the whole back window exploded. I felt like a king driving that big car....but, not the best for handling and steering.
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Hang in there, Mike. At least you're somewhere they can handle that sort of thing. Probably just an oil change.
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my folks had 2. An early one that had some early engine issues (used oil I think), For some reason, they replaced it with another one. I think the first was a 1.6l, and the 2nd was a 1.7l. The latter car was much better overall.'
My wife when we got married had a 1984 (or 85) Horizon. Much "fancier" than the folks. Cloth seats instead of Vinyl, and an AT instead of the 4 speed sticks. Actually a pretty quick car with the 2.2l. And best one I have ever driven in the snow.
only real problem I recall in the 3 years or so we owned it that I recall was a voltage regulator failing. Replaced that myself. Easy car to work on.
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But, Abacomike doesn't do oil changes. The last one he had was on a 1998 Model T or something like that.
And here I've probably done 45 in 206,000 mi or more on my 2003 leSabre 3800 engine--darn GM's, just last and last: take a licking and keep on ticking, just like they said about the Timex watches back in the 80s.
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They are giving me nitroglycerine and morphine for pain. They do an EKG every hour.
Otherwise, everything is just "wonderful"!
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That was a car joke. Just some humor to cheer you up.
Hopefully they can address whatever the immediate issue is and get you moving soon enough and back home.
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My new car still has 28 or 29 miles on the odometer and it's 2 weeks old. I just hope I can get better soon so I can enjoy the car.
We've had 6 or 7 inches of rain the last two days. I guess our drought is over.
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Our first new car (Mrs. and I) and my first new car, too, individually, was a 1994 Ford Escort station wagon. Decent car, we had a cracked exhaust manifold occur and it was replaced early on under the Ford Warranty. Traded that car with fairly low (80,000) miles on a gently used 1997 Ford Escort sedan in 1997. 10,000 miles on that sedan. Then, in May of 1999, we traded the '97 Escort sedan in on a '99 Kia Sephia sedan. And that began the "iluvmysephia1" era.
But what started me down that memory lane was mention of the Plymouth Horizon. Seems the first edition model Horizon had a problem with burning oil or something to that effect, then it was fixed by Plymouth for the next model year Horizon, as was mentioned on this thread a few posts back.
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Hang in there Mike!
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We're off to LA in a rental '14 Prius in the morning, going to take our time getting over to the coast. Should be a bit different from the minivan, and hopefully a lot easier to park.
At least this stay is in the new wing with all private rooms.
Have a good day, all!
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Hang in there.
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My dad got rid of his early on and had a Shelby Charger and then an 87 Shadow ES turbo (anyone remember those?). Mom held onto the Charger until 93 or so when my Stepdad got her a 92 el strippo Caravan (which for some reason was bulletproof).
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I agree that odds are MIke's current issues are Dr. induced. Seems that all the specialist throw meds at what interests them, and rarely does someone look "big picture". We ran into that with my mother when she was in the hospital. Came home with a dizzying array of pills. Took the list to her GP and he crossed about half off. Part (a big part) of the problem was some random doc put her on something temporarily to deal with a situation, but never stopped it when no longer needed.
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It's not likely Mike's PVC's are Dr. induced, or having meds thrown at him, yet there could be drug interactions between the blood thinner/cardiac meds. and the anti-virals. Unfortunately he's got two very different conditions that have to both be addressed.
Talking about Omni's, Horizons, reminds me of Vegas, Falcons, Citations, Cimmerons, and a host of other cars that maybe helped the upstart foreign car makers to make inroads into North America.
Anyone remember in the late 70s Ford wanted to make a more gas efficient car, so they made a smaller LTD called an LTD II. It was still enormous and heavy, but was supposed to be more fuel efficient. It had about all the worst styling cues any car could have including excess chrome and lots of lines and creases....plus enormous front end with not much interior room.
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I know I had a terrible time after my surgery finding the right cardiac drug that would work to regulate my heartbeat. Some didn't do anything at all for it, while others worked too well. I was on one that had my resting heartbeat at 40 or less and BP was dangerously low. The good news is that I no longer get PVCs very often whereas they used to be fairly common. PVCs can lead to lowered BP so I think this is just a matter of getting the meds dialed in. More of a tune-up than an oil-change.
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Wait until they install the set of breaker points.
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Hopefully, there are no outstanding recalls. Be sure to get a written receipt stating the complaints
and the work that was done.
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Anyway, I well remember him taking Mom and myself to the dealers. I think he was turned off AMC so we didn't go to that dealer. He probably could have been convinced to look at Volvo wagons but they were pretty pricey. So we went to the big 3 dealers.
Drove a blue metallic Aspen SE wagon, nice enough, but neither of them liked it for whatever reason. GM didn't have anything but the brochure for the soon to be introduced LeMans wagon. And Ford didn't have either the new Fairmont wagon or even a brochure, but they did have a '77 LTD II Squire, dark red with woodgrain outside, red inside, that I remember driving. It was typical Ford of that era, numb steering, soft suspension, quiet and smooth. But it was really big, and had those battering-ram bumpers with body fillers big enough to set a dinner table setting on. They liked it well enough - I think they actually liked all the chrome and stuff outside - but coming out of the Sportabout it was just too big.
He ended up buying a Grand LeMans Safari sight unseen for delivery on introduction day.
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On the subject of Mustangs, older Mustangs with the older V6 engines. Back around 2008 or 2009 I purchased a used Mustang GT convertible. It was a 2001 Model, with the 4.6L V8 engine. It was in beautiful, garage kept condition, and had an aftermarket exhaust that made it sound really loud and tough. My wife (now ex) drove me over to pick it up, and on the way home I was getting frisky until my ex got impatient and blew the doors off my new Mustang GT with her Passat 2.0T. Rather embarrassing, actually.
I didn’t keep that car for very long.
Jeep Liberty with the 3.7L engine – back about 2 years ago, a friend had the engine go out on her Liberty. I advised her to junk it, but she didn’t listen, spent nearly $5k on a rebuilt engine for a car that was worth about half that (high mileage, not that clean).
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Then they updated to bring out the Volare and Aspens and those cars were disasters. Completely unreliable. What went wrong?
My recollection of early 70s cars was that they all had drivability problems and terrible build quality. The Volare got Chrysler in trouble with the NYS Attorney General who sued them for fenders that rusted. I remember because I used the AG's action as a club when Chrysler was slow to fix a problem with my Omni.
Never understood the upset about rusting fenders since they all did that in the days when inner fenders were for luxury cars only. It was actually kind of cool to see rooster tails erupting through the front fenders on rainy days.
Those were dark days for many cars as they were forced to install emission controls that those engines were never designed for. The slant sixes seemed to be especially affected by this. Thjey didn't "break" they just ran poorly. Even before the smog controls got so cumbersone, they always seemed to have trouble passing emission tests. they also weren't known for getting great mileage.
Still, back in the time when most engines were shot before 100,000, a slant six was capable of going twice than many miles before needing an overhaul.
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