It's a sad day...

[benoitthegr8]

When between my three vehicles my 22 year old Buick is the most reliable of the bunch. That being said I'm allot more meticulous with the maintaince on the GN and don't drive it much, but it's not like I don't service the other vehicles when needed.

-2003 Chevy S10 ZR-2: 88K... fails inspection for emissions, I've chenged both upstream and down stream O2 sensors, next is the catalytic convertor I guess....

-1995 Toyota Camry: 151K... I don't even know where to start with this POS... How about the JAPS learn to build an inline motor, transversal motors are an absolute joke to work on. I spent the weekend trying to get my home-work beater going and it was the last time I touch a foreign POS. I was having an overheating problem, well after changing the thermostat, I replaced the water pump... to get to the water pump I had to remove: alternator+all the brackets,the PS motor mount+all the supports, 3 different drive belt covers, both idler arm pulleys, and the drive pulley, not to mention 2 belts, various hoses, the overflow, and unplug different sensors... WTF... Reality is my hands are entirely too big to work on a vehicle that is put together like a Radio Control Car...

 

["Turbo-T"]

Yet everyone swears up and down the Camry is one of the best cars on the road.

I like the 4X4 S-10's about like yours. But I'm not sure if I like the electronic transfer case too much. They do seem to look like they were cheaply built though.

 

[benoitthegr8]

I like the 4X4 S-10's about like yours. But I'm not sure if I like the electronic transfer case too much. They do seem to look like they were cheaply built though.

The electric tranfer case is easy but sucks if you get yourself stuck in 2wheel because you need to rotate the front wheels once or twice to get it to lock. I've actually gotten this truck stuck 2 or 3 times and had to get a tow...

On a different note I was driving the GN home from work yesterday and my front drivers side tire has been feeling slightly like it's out of balance. All of a sudden the front end started to shake with a horrible slapping noise... I thought I had broke a tie rod or something... I pull over and look underneath the car and my tire had come apart... it looks like the radial wires had torn some how and the top of the tread split like tomato... but the tire didn't deflate??? I've never seen anything like it before, I'll post pics later.

 

["Turbo-T"]

The electric tranfer case is easy but sucks if you get yourself stuck in 2wheel because you need to rotate the front wheels once or twice to get it to lock. I've actually gotten this truck stuck 2 or 3 times and had to get a tow...

I test drove one about 3 weeks ago, 02 ZR2 with the 5 speed. Truck vibrated bad in the drive line (some think it had bad U joints) but also the dang transfer case wouldn't come out of 4 low, yet you could hear it clicking trying to. Wished they still had the old school transfer cases.