Today, Justin made these interesting comments ...
Why would you? Do you assume you'll do that with all new
consumer products?
I don't assume anything because ass/u/me means that when you
assume things, it makes an ass out of u and me. So, if I CAN, I
investigate. But, e.g. when I bought a DVR last year,
investigation was fruitless and I wanted the thing. It came with
a 30-day money back guarantee so I was covered. And, that was a
rare instance of when I bought a 3-year extended warranty.
Absolutely. That sounds a lot like the "extra insurance" I
was talking about in my other post. You could also wait 5
years and be even more stable. If you "want" to draw a line
at SP1 then by all means, that's great. However that's a
"just because" reason.
Nothing is ever "stable" or fully reliable ever. It always goes
out of production before nirvana is reached, if the manufacturer
is even attempting it.
Cars!
Many times I hear people say you should NEVER buy a new model
vehicle. Too many problems, issues, too much "head banging".
We're told to WAIT for at least the second year model.
That was very, very true up until maybe 1990 or so, maybe 1995.
But, in my experience and what I can glean from other people AND
independed studies including Consumer's Reports, problems of
infant mortality are very rare indeed today. Not unheard of, just
rare. Two instance we discussed together was the paint mismatch
on the color I wanted for my Charger; it got fixed with a really
large running change 6 months into the program, so I just waited.
Your example, which I still can neither confirm nor refute is the
alleged bug in the 6.1L HEMI MDS. AFAIK, after doing a fair
amount of digging, is that either MDS was still-born or it came
in late in the model year. But,
www.dodge.com doesn't talk about
it at all and the SRT8 CAFE is still 14/20.
Sure there's problems from time to time. However just as with
Vista, there are many happy first year owners. Look at
yourself. Charger, Prowler....Challenger?
My Charger is only 18 months old and has only 11K miles, so I may
be a bad test case,but I have had ZERO problems of any kind. In
fact, looking back over 20 years of company lease cars, I can
count even minor problems on the fingers of one hand (maybe with
the thumb!)
You lost me. Your HHR and Nitro are or are not good cars?
Those people are/were full of it. In my case they were dead
wrong. That's why I say each individual person needs to STOP
WAITING and evaluate for themselves now if they think they
might want Vista. You already did that so you're done.
Evaluate, yes. But, a really BIG part of a valid evaluation is to
investigate over a reasonable time period. Two or 3 main ways to
do that are magazines, MS KB, and (maybe) NGs like this one.
