Cars update

content/blog/2022-10-02-cars.md

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: Cars I Have Known
 date: 2022-10-02T00:00:00Z
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-I've owned a few cars so far. In chronological order of ownership:
+I've owned a few cars by now. In chronological order of ownership:
 
 1. ~1972 Oldsmobile Delta 88
 2. ~1972 Oldsmobile Toronado
@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ Tesla manages to be very much in the public conciousness.
 There's this persistent story that the cars are poorly built and unreliable.
 That hasn't been my experience.
 
+Reliability
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+
 This next list ranks these cars from most to least reliable,
 including a need for repairs,
 taking into account that gas cars have a higher baseline maintenance burden.
@@ -35,16 +38,22 @@ taking into account that gas cars have a higher baseline maintenance burden.
 9. ~1972 Oldsmobile Toronado: Older front wheel drive car needed lots and lots of twiddling
 10. ~1988 Volkswagon Vanagon: An endless parade of mechanical problems
 
+Overall ownership experience
+--------------------------------
+
 Now including regular maintenance items,
 here are the top 5 from most to least pain in the butt to own:
 
 1. Tesla Model 3: The only shop visit has been to replace tires
-2. Tesla Model S: All repairs happened in our driveway
+2. Tesla Model S: Multiple warranty repairs all happened in our driveway
 3. 2017 Nissan LEAF: One shop trip to have multiple recalls performed
 4. 2019 Chevrolet Bolt: One shop trip to have recalls performed
 5. ~1989 Honda Prelude: Required regular maintenance at an auto shop
 6. ~1998 Subaru Legacy Wagon: Regular maintenance at shop, and alternator replacement ate 3 days from our vacation and also required body work because it fell off the tow truck
 
+Servce Center Experience
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+
 And in terms of best to worst service center experience,
 the list is: