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Message: [QUOTE="SVCBeercats, post: 2476995, member: 7874"] 1972 Toyota Carolla - lasted four years - we average a little over 12 years per car including this statistical outlier Why did I buy it? It was cheap and so was I. Also when it got to about 70 mph it would begin to vibrate forcing me to slow down. The car I owned would have eventually killed me. It was a forest green Camaro which I drove way too fast like pegged at 120 mph. Gave it my wife, a far saner driver. Every few months I was replacing some major piece of this car. It began rusting after the first rain. When it actually was road worthy; it wasn't. I was driving with a friend when the engine sputtered and died. I coasted off the road. I lift the hood and removed the air filter. Asked my friend for one of the many broken pencils from the glove compartment. He watched as I inserted it into the carburetor jamming the butterfly valve open. This happened few times a week. No one seemed to be able to fix it and I was not about to spring for a rebuild. I was tooling along one day when the front right wheel simply broke off. Yep, broke off. Not simply come off, broke off! The transmission failed and I had it rebuilt. My wife and her mother picked up the car. On the way home my wife notice she was trailing serious black smoke. Fortunately a super nice guy towed them and the car back to the dealership. The mechanic failed to replace the transmission seals. So it was a new transmission for which they charged us. Even Toyota of America backed the dealer. Fortunately Missouri had an awesome Department of Consumer Affairs in the Office of the Attorney General. We filed a complaint with them. A week later some VP from Toyota called us with many "mea culpas." No charge. We finally gave up after 4 years and bought a new car trading in the Carolla. We pulled into the dealership to pick up the new car and finalize the paperwork. True to form the Carolla died and I had to push it to a parking spot. Just before signing the papers the sales manager told the service manager to go check the Carolla. My blood ran cold. Unbelievably the service manager said he checked last week when we were there. We never signed anything so fast. We sprinted to the new car and burned rubber out of the dealership never to return. [/QUOTE]

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