LEMONS!

[mjncad]

My Montana was white too. Suppose the color had anything to do with it?

Did it peel like GM & Chrysler white has a tendency to do?

 

[JoelD]

All lemons peel! :laughing:

Good one.

 

[mjncad]

All lemons peel! :laughing:

+1

 

[SixHoeBob]

Thirteen pages and no one mentioned Erskine snow blowers. Bought a new 1845C hi-flow with Erskine 2418 hi-flow blower. You can't move a 6 foot wide path of snow up through whatever diameter the spout was. Bought the 7' snow bucket and unloaded the blower at auction. Bought a used 555 NH that came with a hardly used 1812 standard flow blower. Had to take the blower as part of the package, I figured the value of the blower as being zero. The owner was vague when I asked if it worked. I already knew the answer, so I didn't grill him.
Unloaded that one at auction too. Bought the 7' snow bucket. Bought a used 885 NH with Hi- flow. Turns out the original owner bought the machine about the same time as I bought the 1845C. He just missed the big snow, so he never used the 2418 hi-flow that he order with the 885. Once again I placed the blower value at zero. The blower was never used but had a few rust spots. I sanded and painted the spots so it looked presentable. You guessed it, unloaded it at auction just before the first snow. Bought the 8' snow bucket.

Conclusions;

*Sell the Erskine blowers at auction with snow on the horizon

*1700lb Rated operating cap. skid loader perfect for 1 cu. yd. snow bucket

*2200lb Rated operating cap. skid loader perfect for 1.25 cyd. snow bucket

*Erskine blowers are pretty.......useless. Although they are expensive.

 

[wildwillie]

LEMONS, it's weird. We bought a Pinto with a blown timing belt for almost no $ way back when. Installed a new belt and drove that thing till we were sick of it.It was silly, That thing wouldn't die so we ended up giving it to a needy friend. Of course it had the ford fix for the gas tank [A plastic sheet] It was quality Junk :laughing:

 

[pitt_md]

One thing I've learned over the years is that no manufacturer has a monopoly on lemons-- they ALL make 'em once in a while (some more than others, of course).

I had a 1980 Honda Civic wagon... I mean, a HONDA! We had to have a hole in the floor replaced after only 4 years, and I tend to maintain my cars well.... After the third --yes, the third-- head gasket blew I towed it to the dealer, found a Colt Vista 4WD, and just said, "Where do I sign?"

On the other hand, my 1972 Chevy Blazer lasted me thirty years....

I had a friend that was a mechanic for Mersedes Benz. Told me a story about a flagship model that everyone that knew about it thought it was cursed or something. Of course the story starts out with the dealership forgetting to put oil back in the car after its first service. Owner drove off to have the car stop about ten miles away. nothing was ever right again.

 

[cdaigle430]

87 S10 Blazer, blown rear axle, head gasket, rebuilt transmission, broken leaf springs, wheels just kept breaking off, odometor kept making grinding noises, replaced 2 CV joints, 2 manifloid gaskets, water pump, 3 battery's, one alternator at 60k, 3 sets of ball joints, two radiatorsm muffler and when I got finally got rid of the POS, the rear tire mount bracket was cracked from the main body. The dealerhips I dealt with were morons, and the biggest bunch of a-holes ever put on the face of the earth.

Wasn't my only GM lemon, had several others like a Chevy POS Barretta.

I had some issues with my 2000 Jeep Grand Cherokee but at least the dealerships were a lot better to work with.

 

[crashz]

I see a lot of S10 complaints here, but I have a different opinion on those:

In college I had an 89 S15 GMC Jimmy. Other than a couple starters (misplaced heat shield) and a gas tank, we got approximately 225K miles out of that little bugger. I miss that little truck. I gave it to my brother, who left it in a field for a few years. It started to rust out, so it really wasn't worth keeping.

We did have the digital dash go out at 80K miles though. It would disappear for a few years, then magically re-appear. Always held the correct mileage though.

And even though I'm still fond of GM, year of my life have been stripped away from me by those d@mn 6.2L diesels! I'm on my third (the 1987 GMC 1 ton in my avatar) and at the first sign of trouble, I'm yanking it out and stuffing Cummins 6bt in there.

 

[ultrarunner]

I had a 91 with the 4.3 V6... sold it a couple of years ago with 39,000 miles... just didn't drive it enough... had enough power to pull but felt it was to light in the rear for what I needed to tow.

I did have instrument cluster problems and eventually added after market temp and oil pressure gauges and set the odometer for fuel fill-ups since the gas gauge was not always reliable... my year had lots of cluster problems...

I kept the 91 Silverado styleside with 5.7 and it pulls very well for what I need and gets almost the same or slightly better fuel mileage than the S10 when comparing both not hauling anything... even though they were the same year, they had very different fuel injection systems.

 

[am122]

LEMONS, it's weird. We bought a Pinto with a blown timing belt for almost no $ way back when. Installed a new belt and drove that thing till we were sick of it.It was silly, That thing wouldn't die so we ended up giving it to a needy friend. Of course it had the ford fix for the gas tank [A plastic sheet] It was quality Junk :laughing:

Bought a Pinto new in 1973 for $2227.00 wife totaled the car in 1975 Insurance paid me
$2200.00 and the car had 90,000 miles on it. Yes it had the plastic sheet fix for the gas
tank.
What other car can you drive for two years and loose $27.00 in value?
And the plastic sheet fix was the only recall.