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Those cars seemed to have been of deplorable quality. A friend had a Concorde which is AFAIK essentially the same sort of car. Always in the shop, needed tows, and one day a big oil peepee. That was the end of the transmission.

Some companies have rather stunning problems in quality and/or quality control and nobody seems to do something about it. Tonight I'll be boxing up carpet tiles. Again. Goes back on the truck Friday. The 2nd (!) shipment where they screwed up. Oh well, they are paying for the truck rides. The topper was a toilet where the manufacturer needed six attempts to ship one that wasn't broken, cracked, warped or plugged by debris. Cost us the original $550 but they must have paid north of $1k total in shipping.

Same here. In Germany we had only one car, a manual. After moving to the US she wanted automatic.

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Mine's even rolled off Edmunds, too old. 1997 Montero Sport. AFAIR the automatic was highway-listed at 22mpg and the manual which I have at

25mpg (which it really delivers).

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Slippery surface, steep hill, in my Q45 I can force a gear to be held... used it for the first time the other night to come down a hill so steep I often couldn't see the pavement :-( ...Jim Thompson

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Modern vehicle?

Montero? Yeccccch! ...Jim Thompson

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It purrs just like on the day I bought it. Not one defect. Really cool is its load capacity. I can haul half a ton of pellets for the stove and it doesn't flinch. Leaf spring suspension in back, torsion bars in front, almost like a tank.

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I can do the same with the Frontier, but at better mileage, and it's automatic ;-) ...Jim Thompson

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A wee dose of reality here:

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Pretty much. The TSi was the hot version, the Concorde the one with the rich Corinthian leather, and the Intrepid the cheaper model. The car wasn't all that bad, a nice engine, a crap for a transmission. It certainly wasn't up to the 300HP engine.

What are you doing that your toilet can't be unplugged and has to be shipped back? Ewww! ;-)

I had (have? - not so much these days) problems with my knees and feet that were causing me a lot of trouble with the clutch in my minivan. She wouldn't let me buy a manual transmission in the truck. She didn't want to end up driving it.

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From a designer point of view it was a nice car. But not from an engineer's point of view. The same is true for many other cars from the big three. Nice, practical, often not even that bad in gas mileage, yet many of them are prone to fail in a spectacular and expensive fashion. Engine dies for good, engine can't pass smog, head gasket goes, transmission croaks. Consequently they lose value rather fast. Why is it?

On my Chrysler 20-some years ago I was amazed what some engineers had done. Like a fairly accurate oil level indicator. To this day most "modern" cars don't have that. But then only inches from there my eyes spotted something that borders on the daft: An aluminum bracket that held the alternator. Which a few thousand miles after the purchase promptly broke. The rear suspension was of similar "endurance". This car wasn't even 7 years old when the right rear suspension coil spring showed up in the passenger compartment. That cured my appetite for this brand.

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BAMA doesn't have any Heathkit data anymore. The US rights to sell copies was bought from Heathkit and that character demanded that all the scanned schematics & manuals be pulled.

BTW, I had no problem downloading from the link you posted. I used Firefox [Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)]

I clicked the link, entered the captcha data and saved the file.

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I think the smoke from everything he blows up is affecting his mind. :(

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So? It was all downhill. ;-)

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Then you don't know how to drive a vehicle with an automatic transmission on ice. I took a survival driving course on wet ice in a

1/2 ton pickup truck with an automatic while in the Army. Their logic was, "If you can do it with an automatic transmission, you can do it with a manual transmission." BTW, the test was conducted by the National Safety Council.

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Don't buy anything from Eurpoe.

Then you have no backup light switch to fail?

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Smacks self on head. Of Course. Too much recent overtime. It's got me = goofy.

True, I don't know that. A race car driver once said that an automatic will, in our lifetime, probably never be as good as a manual to handle one you get onto a surprise patch of ice. Load change reaction is so much faster because it ain't sloshing all this stuff around.

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Why not? The marzipan and brandy beans from there are quite good :-)

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Ummmmm? My Q45 has automatic _stability_ control.

Keep it up Joerg, you're getting ALMOST as good at obfuscation as Ms Prissy ;-) ...Jim Thompson

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Automatic stuff can improve the performance, of course. But only to some extent, just like ABS is no miracle cure. Shortly after I had my Mits (has largish truck brakes) someone in front of me on Hwy 50 screwed up. I hit the brakes hard but not to the lock-up points, just a smidgen before. Looked in rearview, oh s..t, big black BMW coming closer. I stop, then big black BMW leaves highway and skids along the grass on the median. I walked out there to see if he was ok. "Man, how come your Mits has a better ABS than my BMW?" ... "Ahm, well, my Mits doesn't have any ABS."

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