Cars!

Regarding reliability, I thought this may be of interest to you all. The figures are faults recorded per 100 cars sold on the Swedish market. Not at all as expected.

 

some of their models have bad problems especially the IYGO why anyone would buy a three cylinder car is beyond me. my mother had one, new clutch at 6000 miles new upgraded clutch at 13000 miles 13" to 15" got rid of it at 20000 miles due run out of clutch adjustment.
to be fair it is made by citroen/Peugeot.

 

Agreed I buy Mercedes but am carful to buy ones that are built in Germany not the states or South Africa and never anything with a Renault engine.
Land rover same gear as Jaguar totally unreliable. the one I had new car new body new ingenium engine same old land rover jaguar electrical problems. Rouge alarms , flat battery, control screen black outs, unable to turn off seat heating, unable to turn off radio or even turn down volume.
false read outs resulting in car going into creep mode no more than 30mph.
unable to start engine to name a few faults. Not surprized to see jeep way down start with a heap of crap then sell it to Fiat and make it in Italy
regards sandy

 

Although the list is for new cars, Swedes love their american ones, especially when it comes to the classics. The only manufacturer that is sold here and not on the list is Jaguar. Too few were sold for the statistics for them to be deemed accurate.

As a point of interest, what is supposedly the biggest meeting for classic american cars is held here, not in the US. Its so big the US Embassy actually have representatives attend!

 

Not that big a surprise to me. I'd wager that 75% of the vehicles sold that are above industry average will be company/fleet vehicles and as such their drivers don't really give a toss as long as it starts and gets to the other end. The fleet sector makes up a huge proportion of new car sales in the UK.

 

Thats like asking someone to choose between pest and cholera...

 

Loved my old 5 turbo, had more 205 gti's than I care to remember but the 306 turbo d that I still have is probably the best froggy car I've owned. Not as fast engine wise as modern stuff but as it is so much lighter and of the old school Peugeot chassis philosophy it still runs rings around the modern stuff across country. Best of all, it always starts, never costs much to get through the MOT, doesn't rot and service parts are super cheap. At 270000 miles the 3rd gear sychro was weak so the other week I replaced that - it took me three hours in total and cost me a tenner in parts and oil (I had a choice of several secondhand synchros on my shelf of 306 bits).