Re: town and country ignition switch failure

tony wrote:
> > hat's making us wonder about this Town and
> >
> > > Country. We changed a 95 Quest at 165000 mostly trouble free miles for the
> >
> > T&C.
> >
> > > The '90 Lexus 250 is still going strong at 123000 miles, and it's been
> >
> > fairly
> >
> > > trouble free too (except showing a bit of rust now). That year Lexus seemed
> >
> > to
> >
> > > have an early tire problem, and we got after 4 years ownership a $200 check
> >
> > to
> >
> > > help defray tire replacement costs -- that was without complaining.
> >
> > Why didn't you buy another Quest?
> >
> >
> > Matt
>
> WHen we bought the T&C Quest was in the process of introducing a new model --
> my experience with new models is that they take a little time to shake down
> their problems. I'd never buy a car the first year of a substantially new
> design.
>
> The next one may be a Quest, though, if they've demonstrated themselves to be
> reliable in the currect design iteration.

The new Quest is butt ugly, especially inside.  I just bought a 2003 GC. 
 I looked at Odysseys and others, but they were $5-8,000 more than the 
Grand Caravan with similar equipment.  Takes a lot of repairs to 
overcome that difference.  If you spend $1,000 every 71,000 miles, this 
means that you'd have to drive over 350,000 miles to break even with a 
Quest, and that assumes that the Quest requires NO repairs during that 
time.  I think people need to look at value as well as repair requirements.


Matt