Genesis. Cars not the band.

[Holeshot]

Rob, keep us up to date on what happens. I get your neurosis...I'm the same with my used vehicles. Can't drive the thing once I've brought it into my garage until I spend about 20 hours detailing the thing everywhere. Panels, off, etc...completely clean. But...I don't ever like buying new. Weird like that.

Love it!

My buddy at work has a 2018 Charger Hellcat that his lease is coming up on. His buy out is only going to be around $32k and we’ve agreed that he will buy it out for $32k and I’ll directly buy it from him. Booom! 707hp family hauler with 15k miles for $32k!!!

Just gotta talk the wifey into it....

Nick, you may be able to buy the lease out direct on an assignment...otherwise you both may get stuck with sales tax.

 

[frozenduc]

My kid has a couple Hundai Kia's.
A Sorento which has been so so. The rear end went tits up at 80,000. He had to eat that one. $1400 for a new carrier that we put in. (**Anyone with one, run the rear gear oil much higher by raising the rear axle 8" off the ground then filling it.) Front suspension at 100,000, coil packs, injectors.

A 2010 Hundai sedan that I don't recall the model name. Trans went at 70,000 and the engine went bang at 100,000. The engine was part of a known problem due to chips in the oil passages from machining. These took time to break up and then trash the rod bearings. Fortunately both of these biggie cost failures were covered under warranty. We just did wheel bearings and struts on it at 110,000. Everything is starting to go on it. AC died, radio is glitchy, windows are leaking, cruise control quit etc.They're decent cars to drive but they're just not there in long term reliability yet.

 

[kingmoochr]

They're decent cars to drive but they're just not there in long term reliability yet.

To be fair, I think their offerings have progressed leaps and bounds in the last decade. Also, any suspension should probably be replaced at 100k. What scares me is all the computers and tech involved with suspension these days, won't be a cheap job any longer...part of why I picked my ISF.

 

[mean dad]

This may be all spinning my wheels for nothing. Things may unfold in the next couple weeks that may have me toeing a different company line (which includes a company car), so we’ll just see what we’ll see.

Good luck on this part.

 

[berth]

Also what you bought is not a warranty but a "service contract" with stipulations you have to comply to.

I never used the word warranty.

The only people who've ever touched the car are technicians at FCA dealerships. (In fact, save for one event, it's all the same dealership.)

Even the windshield wipers are MOPAR. I have them change those out annually.

When the car says "get your oil changed", I get the oil changed.

I have not had any issues with my service plan. It recently covered $1300 worth of A/C repair for my deductible ($100). They didn't bat an eye, and paid for my rental, as they always have, even when I just get oil changes.

 

[Sharky]

Wow now that is a really shit residual. That lose about what...over 55% of value in only two years? My god. Welp, his loss is your gain.

Hope the CFO green lights you. The blower whine on those things is addicting. I don’t get any of that in my car and I’m a bit jelly that the Mopar peeps get it in spades.

Except the whole part of owning a fricken Mopar.

 

[aminalmutha]

Wait wut? This the same Hyundai that has made pretty much disposable unremarkable cars for the past few decades? .

I've rented a lot of cars over the past few years, mostly lower end rental type stuff, but some middle of the road stuff as well.

I will take a Hyundai or Kia over any equivalent Nissan, 8 days a week and 6 days a week over an equivalent Toyota.

This is just week-long rental stuff, but man, Nissan makes some positively miserable cars these days. And Toyota is not far behind (unless you get it fully, full-tilt loaded).

Long term ownership may be different, but they don't totally suck to drive. Nissans fucking suck to drive. Toyotas, again, are not far behind.

Caveat... this is for 2017 MY and later.

 

[Maddevill]

My biggest complaint about the new gen Hyundai Elantra was the lumbar support in the stock seats was HORRIBLE. A half hour and my back was screaming in pain. Worst car seats I've ever sat in.

Mad

 

[Maddevill]

I wish I didn't hate my Mopar. I wanted it so badly, too.

Nothing but problems, CELs, and now apparently some kind of transmission whine or something since the rebuild.

Fuck that car.

Yeah, on the Ram trucks, particularly if you tow, it seems the trannys just don't last at all. A lot of the Rams for sale have trans issues. I have an old 4.7, but I don't tow anything bigger than a small utility trailer. But had both headgaskets blow at 85k due to overheating. A known problem with that motor.

Mad

 

[Blankpage]

I've rented a lot of cars over the past few years, mostly lower end rental type stuff, but some middle of the road stuff as well.

I will take a Hyundai or Kia over any equivalent Nissan, 8 days a week and 6 days a week over an equivalent Toyota.

This is just week-long rental stuff, but man, Nissan makes some positively miserable cars these days. And Toyota is not far behind (unless you get it fully, full-tilt loaded).

Long term ownership may be different, but they don't totally suck to drive. Nissans fucking suck to drive. Toyotas, again, are not far behind.

Caveat... this is for 2017 MY and later.

The few times in recent years I’ve rented Toyota’s I was not impressed. They may be durable cars but they were boring as hell to drive.

 

[Caddywumpus]

Yeah, on the Ram trucks, particularly if you tow, it seems the trannys just don't last at all. A lot of the Rams for sale have trans issues. I have an old 4.7, but I don't tow anything bigger than a small utility trailer. But had both headgaskets blow at 85k due to overheating. A known problem with that motor.

Mad

FCA is hot garbage.

 

[ScarySpikes]

The few times in recent years I’ve rented Toyota’s I was not impressed. They may be durable cars but they were boring as hell to drive.

I drive a corolla right now, though, one from 2003.

It's very beige.

 

[byke]

We just put 700-something miles on a 2020 Corolla and I loved the thing. Could not believe how it flew up the hills outside of Colfax. You could rip 100mph the whole way to Tahoe if you wanted.

 

[Smash Allen]

I just picked up a 2010 Toyota Highlander and love it... Much easier to get in and out of compared to the VW Passat wagon manual 1.8l turbo...

Cars are tools that get from A to B. I want to get from A to B reliably, comfortably, and for the least amount of money possible. I don't care how fast I get there and I don't care how I look.

Anyone else heard of Scott Kilmer? Love that dude, mechanic on YouTube. Gives you straight talk from 30 years of being a mechanic.

To each his own and I don't judge people for their choices. That doesn't mean I understand why people spend money on depreciating assets

 

[AbsolutEnduser]

We just put 700-something miles on a 2020 Corolla and I loved the thing. Could not believe how it flew up the hills outside of Colfax. You could rip 100mph the whole way to Tahoe if you wanted.

not a great measure there... other cars, base versions have been able to do the same for ^^^ decades...

.., as for Scotty Kilmer isn't he out of wack? screaming all the time, you can see it in the comments, he's a shill for something something. He's very "popular by Youtube standards", that means he just has many views

 

[mikev]

If you spend a lot of time driving it's worth spending a few bucks to be comfortable.

 

[Smash Allen]

He definitely has his own style but besides lauding the reliability of Toyota and Honda I don't think you could say he is a shill for anything...

Yeah I want to be comfortable but comfort isn't expensive

 

[byke]

not a great measure there... other cars, base versions have been able to do the same for ^^^ decades...

I dunno, just one year older and the Corolla drops from 170hp to 130hp. I imagine you'd be working a 2019 pretty hard to maintain 100mph up the hill.

 

[mean dad]

First bunch of times I went over the Grapevine from Bako to L.A. was on my Ninjas and assorted other motorcycles. Never knew why people complained about the Grapevine and their overheating cars. I'd just rail without even noticing anything.

Then I drove my Celica. Holy shit, I had to downshift damn near to second gear to make it up the hill.

 

[byke]

That's awesome, had the same 2nd gear experience in a dodge colt, but with a dirt bike on a trailer and nasty "speed" wobbles somehow at 35mph.