> Well, they may be more high-tech, but they do not break less often, for my family at least. Of course thats probably because all of our cars except my dad's truck (which isn't a car) are 12+ years old.
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> My sister's is by far the worst. It's an 89 Honda Accord. Now, honda's are great cars, we own four of them, an 86, two 89s, and a 90 (which I drive.) The others only give us problems on occasion, and with a car that old you expect things to wear out. But hers....
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> Last month the AC stopped working, a couple of wires had melted on the manifold and shorted out. At the same time had problem with the battery terminals being corroded so we had to wash those off.
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> Before that it was her door. It wouldn't latch. So we replaced it with a new one. Which ended up not UNLATCHING.
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> Before that it was a moter that retracts the seatbelt (she drives a hatchback) that was running the battery down continually. It got disconnected - but when we replaed the door dad re-connected the NEW one, and it did the same thing.
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> Most recently: The battery cable didn't make good contact with the terminal - i fixed that with a screw between them. AND the passanger side headlight won't flip up because a rubber washer fell off - I fixed that with a bungee cord.
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> I am tired of working on her car!
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> All the rest of ours are good, except the 86 has a bad transmission and mine has a hole in the exaust. But those are just age. My 90 has 236K miles on it.

I looked up "good car" and it was defined as any car that has gone 236,000 miles and is still running.
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