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| # | Post Title | Result Info | Date | User | Forum |
| Answer to: Nissan Top 2 cars on Consumer Reports | 20Relevance | 4 years ago | Chuck Tobias | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| The only Rogue I would buy is this one: | |||||
| Answer to: Car reliability according to consumer reports (cont.) | 20Relevance | 5 years ago | toyotagrl | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| CR, JD Power et al. Their flags wave to whomever lines their pockets. There is no impartiality in any of the reviewing orgs. | |||||
| Review Request - Auto Stop Eliminator | 26Relevance | 6 years ago | thunderfunk | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| ... road trips we go on for my daughter’s travel team. Also, back then, Consumer reports highly recommended the Subaru Forester. If I had subbed to the Scotty Kilmer channel at the time, I would not have bought it and gotten a Toyota or a Honda. I am the proud owner of a 20-year-old Toyota Tacoma SR5 Double Cab 4x4 that runs as good as the day I got it. Lesson learned. All this to say, the one major feature that I despise with the passion of a thousand burning suns is the Auto Start/Stop feature in the Sports package. I despised having to manually disable it e ... | |||||
| RE: Should I trade in my 2016 Honda Odyssey for a sedan? | 26Relevance | 6 years ago | MrRangerZr1 | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| @kerem-umut-kerem That is exactly what I wanted (and expected) to know from you. You can't just go by Consumer reports for everything. ACUTAL experiences from owners and techs is what you need to know. I personally had a 2011 with ZERO issues until it got totaled at 70k miles (got replaced with a 9th gen) I never had any issues with the brakes on either btw. If you actually knew a thing or two about Hondas, you would know that 03-07 accords had a weaker transmission than the 08-12, the 5-speed in the 8th gen was much more robust. 2013 was the first year they ... | |||||
| Answer to: Thoughts on a new 2020 / 2021 Camry | 26Relevance | 6 years ago | mazda_787b | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| How about a non-turbo Mazda 6? Engine and transmission are tried and tested (unchanged for 5+ years) and you can still get a stick-shift! iirc, Consumer reports rated Mazda #1 in terms of reliability. Toyota dealers are living high off the hog and don't have much incentive to negotiate. Also, depending on where you live there's an unpleasant middleman who gets a cut and plays games (several hundred dollars worth of useless add-ons, like spray-on "rustproofing"). They go by names like 'Gulf States Toyota' in several states around Texas. Just google them and s ... | |||||
| RE: Should I replace the ATF in my 2019 4Runner with 16k | 25Relevance | 6 years ago | geriscan | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| ... service and maintenance (other than an article of service provided without charge under the warranty or unless the warrantor has obtained a waiver pursuant to section 102(c) of the Act, 15 U.S.C. 2302(c)). For example, provisions such as, “This warranty is void if service is performed by anyone other than an authorized `ABC' dealer and all replacement parts must be genuine `ABC' parts,” and the like, are prohibited where the service or parts are not covered by the warranty. These provisions violate the Act in two ways. First, they violate the section 102(c) ... | |||||
| Answer to: Car reliability according to consumer reports (cont.) | 20Relevance | 5 years ago | FJCruiser2014 | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| My point wasn't about being a fan or liking a car or not as that's something totally different, my point/question was about the reliability of their reviews/rankings. Honda or Toyota having good quality is not my personal opinion, they have proven and showed their quality over the years. But I just think calling their tests to be scientific is way too much and it's a very questionable review just like those from JD Power. | |||||
| RE: Car reliability according to consumer reports (cont.) | 20Relevance | 5 years ago | MountainManJoe | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| you're right my mistake. I just saw G4LC in the page title. | |||||
| RE: Car reliability according to consumer reports (cont.) | 20Relevance | 5 years ago | InThrustWeTrust | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| @dan What swung your decision towards the Stonic over the CX-3? And yes, join the club regarding overpriced automobiles outside the USA.. | |||||
| Answer to: CR reliability reports | 23Relevance | 6 years ago | Kerem | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| This forum doesn't have a positive outlook on Consumer reports. I personally sometimes look at their data but take it with a grain of salt. The surveys aren't influenced or payed or they pay out of their own money to buy their test cars and do all their testing themselves so they are in my opinion unbiased but they really aren't that accurate for many reasons. For example an Audi could be rated higher than a Honda. This might be actually true! If you use a Honda 20,000 miles a year and it happens to have a new transmission or engine you might experience m ... | |||||
| Answer to: How do you feel about state car inspection? | 21Relevance | 5 years ago | Dan | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| @mmj , the funny thing is that how it works.In 2010, the my local gov published a report that said "no traffic deaths were caused by technical faults" and praised the inspection policies they had - you know what's the funny part?A year prior (in 2009), the same people published a lesser known report that found that 13% of the vehicles on the road with valid inspections are not roadworthy - the same amount that they have found before the inspections mandate. 🤣Basically, either so many cars are not roadworthy and they are a danger, or the same not road worthy cars don't cause accidents?-Welcome to the realm of incompetence and corruption.As @AutoDIY said, State run programs will always find a way to praise themselves and steal more from the people.-remember when the Italian police shortened yellow-lights to boost up the numbers to make it seem like the system isn't just a tax on the people and simultaneously bring in more profits? This is unrelated to inspections but it shows you how much corruption there is.-The best example I can think of, of corrupt "official independent reports"?I can show you a report by my local "The authority for highway safety" (a government funded non-profit) on speed cameras next to the report done by a committee hired by the police.One provides evidence that cameras have caused significant increase in accidents where they are installed and that they have not changed the growth in accident rates,While the other says the opposite also provides "evidence" - it's not concrete and often is just not related to the effect of what they're studying but just talks about their "performance". (and it’s not like these are countries with rampant corruption, I live in a place that’s the 35 least corrupt nation (about the same as South Korea and Spain) while Italy is more corrupt (ranks 52/172) but still not what’d be considered very corrupt)-Same with roadworthiness inspections, all of those "independent" reports are to serve the interests of the gov and of the automakers .I have so many more examples of so called "independent" reports parsing the gov even when that's not factually correct... | |||||
| Answer to: 2011 Camry VVT rattle on startup | 21Relevance | 5 years ago | BrandonTibbetts | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| Hi everyone! Hi Scotty! I came here to ask Scotty the same question. I just bought a 2011 Camry XLE with 134k miles. Seems very well maintained and free of issues except it has the same exact issue as what the OP reported. When I looked at the car myself the issue didn't come up. When I paid a mechanic to inspect the car he didn't catch it and didn't mention it. (He did warn me about the oil-burning issue, but this car has the 2AR-FE so it's not affected by that manufacturing defect which Scotty has talked about numerous times). I've since done lots of reading and discovered that this "VVT rattle on cold start" problem is VERY common with Toyotas across a wide range of engine models and years. I'm surprised in all of Scotty's videos about these cars never once, that I recall, has he mentioned it or what - if anything - should be done about it. FWIW, from what I can tell the best thing to do if you have the VVT rattle on startup, at least if you have a 4-cylinder motor is just live with it. It's an expensive job to fix (maybe $1200 at a decent shop?), and it's likely not going to lead to any harm to the overall engine. The wear is confined to the locking pin in the VVT gear, which gets stuck on a cold start due to temporary lack of oil pressure there at the top of the motor. There are many reports of owners leaving this problem alone when it starts at 50k, 100k, 120, etc, and still continuing to get 100k - 200k more miles out of their Toyota engine with only routine maintenance. The only reports I could find of catastrophic engine damage are in the V6s, and even those reports are rare. It seems like the worst that will likely happen in the life of an affected 4-cylinder engine is that eventually the lock pin will get stuck, VVT will be disabled, the check engine light will come on... and then you'll have to either junk the car or spring for that $1200 repair after all. No further damage is likely to result. So it doesn't really make sense to do this repair on an older car IF the worst case from not doing it is ultimately just the same repair anyway. It makes more sense to just live with it (and quite possibly never have to do anything for as long as you own it). | |||||
| RE: Car reliability according to consumer reports (cont.) | 20Relevance | 5 years ago | Chuck Tobias | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| Unfortunately it seems that all too many of our politicians in the U.S. (like those currently in power) want to sail over that cliff down the same rathole that Europe is plunging itself into. This does impact directly on cars and driving and a whole lot more. | |||||
| RE: Car reliability according to consumer reports (cont.) | 20Relevance | 5 years ago | MountainManJoe | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| I agree. Sad and scary. I see mistakes of the past being repeated. And freedoms that were fought for being casually surrendered. | |||||
| RE: Car reliability according to consumer reports (cont.) | 20Relevance | 5 years ago | Dan | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| Well it's a 1.4, the biggest engine it comes with. Definitely will keep everyone updated. I think about doing a post about my other cars when I'll get to a higher millage, It'd be interesting to see how Form member's cars have been treating them. | |||||