these are 40 degree cycles i'm talking about ..to add to it ...an aluminum engine..I grant u that its not severe overheating, but it is overheating to a certain effect . Other makes don't cycle as much and it shows with their reliability record hint ..honda
True. The Japanese cars (Toyota) don’t have much, if any, quality edge anymore. Consumer Reports will never tell you that though. lol
But even Hyundai has gotten better. The bar has been raised…for most. There are outliers.
yes the timing belt is a big shortfall I agree. But hondas temp swing is nowhere as noticeable unless something is wrong. But it is just a general comparison because toyota . audis, ...mostly foreigns don't run on this type of parameters. American cars don't control their temps that well. to add to this ..over my lifetime of car ownership of both american and foreign it was the american cars that that usually needed the head gasket replacement ... never once on a foreign model.
You must not have ever had a Subaru.
U must ask urself why there was no coolant in the first place . Yes there could be leaks in the cooling system( I take it u mean this)...but the reason this could have also happened due to the head gasket itself.. It not like coolant suddenly just evaporates. I've seen plenty of american cars have head gasket replacements before their time and 3.0 ford was definitely one of them. The chrysler 2.5 inline was another. These literally were plagued with this with almost every example.
