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-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:
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-1. ~1972 Oldsmobile Delta 88
-2. ~1972 Oldsmobile Toronado
-3. ~1989 Honda Prelude
-4. ~1998 Subaru Legacy Wagon
-5. ~1985 Volkswagon Vanagon
-6. 2007 Subaru Outback
-7. 2016 Tesla Model S
-8. 2019 Tesla Model 3
-9. 2017 Nissan LEAF
-10. 2019 Chevrolet Bolt
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-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.
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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.
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-1. ~1989 Honda Prelude: Nothing
-2. 2017 Nissan LEAF: Several recalls when we first bought it
-3. Tesla Model 3: Recall on a cable in the trunk
-4. 2019 Chevrolet Bolt: Software updates can't happen over the air, and a battery recall that was still open when we bought it
-5. ~1998 Subaru Legacy Wagon: Alternator failure made car die over train tracks!
-6. Tesla Model S: Three door handle microswitch failures, all covered by warranty
-7. 2007 Subaru Outback: Head gasket failed
-8. ~1972 Oldsmobile Delta 88: Older car needed lots of twiddling
-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
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-Now including regular maintenance items,
-here are the top 5 from most to least pain in the butt to own:
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-1. Tesla Model 3: The only shop visit has been to replace tires
-2. Tesla Model S: All repairs 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
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-And in terms of best to worst service center experience,
-the list is:
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-1. Tesla
-2. Everybody else
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-I could write pages and pages of complaints about the dealership service center experience
-for every car we've had.
-I'm really hoping,
-now that Tesla has illustrated how to sell and service cars without dealerships,
-that other manufacturers start doing the same thing,
-because the dealership experience is uniformly horrid.
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-Amy, on reading this list,
-commented that if she had to buy a gas car again,
-she'd want something like the Legacy wagon.
-I agree with that: it was a pretty good gas car.
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-But we'd rather have any electric than any gas car.
-They need way less regular maintenance,
-which means that even the nightmare experience of dealing with a dealership is less frequent.