Are our cars really that unreliable?

[mpb87]

Tonight I had a disagreement with one of my friends about DSM's and their reliablility. (He has no room to talk considering he drives an Audi S4 that has already had about 10k of warranty-covered work done to it) He said that their cheap and fast, but expect to have a lot of problems. I think that because they have so much potential power wise and they respond to mods very well that people end up making a lot of power and puitting too much stress on parts that weren't enginered to withstand that much power therefore breaking things. And the only reason you don't see similar problems with Hondas, Toyotas etc. is because the majority of the people who own these cars and doing mods that are drastically increasing power (like putting an intake, headers and a cat back and thats it) Also, who modify these cars do so for a reason and then beat the piss out of them. I'm not saying that DSM's are the poster child for reliability... just that they get a bad rap because people tend to modify and drive the hell out of them.

Anyone else have any oppinions on this issue?

 

[TSIfreek]

You got it right!! If you take care of it they will last along time. These cars are old and things break. People eather want a race car or a street car. Problem is they try and do both with alont of 10 year old stock parts and things become unreliable. Reliability all comes from the driver, quality of parts used as well as the installer and the tune of the motor. Anything is going to become unreliable if its not operated correctly no matter what is its.

 

[No_Skillz]

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[7"exhaust_tip]

yep you got it right alright.
why do you think those honduhs are so reliable, because they never stress out anything putting down 63hp to the wheels.

 

[rabenne]

I have had a couple issues that make my friends argue the same thing ( both honda owners mind you ).


These cars are constantly beat on because of the type of car they are.

On the other hand, Honda is more reliable. The problem is that they are reliably slow until you drop $20 grand into them. Any joe dick or harry can buy a dsm for $5,000 and beat the hell out of it, giving our cars a bad rap.


THEY ARE 11 + (for 2gs) years old... So the nickle and dime problems seem to be the only thing hondas notice about our cars...

all that said I want a honda to beat around in and make my dsm a garage queen.

 

[Defiant]

I'm sure no one has ever thought to ask this question before.