[Shotimes] who can help me?

Ron Porter ronporter@prodigy.net
Wed, 23 Feb 2005 00:52:08 -0500


Exactly how is this meaningless??

1.  Most dependable SHOs were the two I bought new.

2.  Less dependable SHOs were the ones I bought used.

3.  Last I checked, it was not possible to buy a new SHO anymore.

Everybody sends their money on what is important to them. The technology
advances in many areas of new cars matters to me.

Ron Porter

-----Original Message-----
From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Steve Tatro
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 5:18 PM
Cc: shotimes@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] who can help me?

So, you're comparing a '94 MTX which you bought used with a bunch of
miles to a '95 MTX which you bought used with a bunch of miles to the
2.5 years you drove a brand new '99?  Nice example.  Meaningless, but
nice.

My '93 has had it's problems, but at 181k miles is still my daily
driver and has never left me stranded.  Worried, but not stranded. 
This includes a couple of days of having to beat on the starter to get
home from work, but I'll take that for a car I paid so little for 8
years ago.

People at work pick on me because of my car, but I know they're just
jealous.  We all make enough money to go out and blow $50k on a car if
we wanted to, and most of my coworkers have.  I just keep telling them
I'll replace the SHO when (if?) it dies!

Steve Tatro
Red/Black '93 with 181k miles
Monroe, Ohio




On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 14:43:27 -0500, Ron Porter <ronporter@prodigy.net>
wrote:
> Don't think so. I put 50K on my '89 in less than two years, and averaged
> 18K/year over 10 years with it. As I mentioned in another post, other than
> some early-on issues, and the one tow, it was a VERY dependable car over
the
> ten years. As was my '99 for the 2.5 years that I owned it (it was new,
> also). The '95 & '94 MTXs caused me some issues, although not enough to
> totally strand me, but enough to make for some tense situations.
> 
> When my work was I town, or even a drive to the airport, we had spare cars
> around the house. Now I do out-of-state work along with the plane trips,
and
> the only spare car is still in storage. I have much more piece-of-mid with
> the new vehicle (except when I run into things!!).
> 
> Ron Porter
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