Posted: 5/24/2017 10:43:29 AM EDT
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Sweet ride/daily driver or heavy unreliable gashog?
Been looking at a few of these along with mid 2000s CTS/STS and various ford products (06 Explorer, '11 focus, various fusions/crown vics) as a DD to replace my 97 silverado. |
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I would drive a Crown Vic over anything with the Northstar engine. I've heard they're maintenance headaches. Stuff like needing the head bolts retorqued every 20k.
I drove a Fusion SEL recently, wasn't a bad car. Would take one over the caddy to be honest. I drove a third generation Fusion(2013) when my wife and I were car shopping, wasn't too impressed. |
| My wife has a 2004 with 33k on it that she bought new. Â It's a great ride, but the amount of maintenance and repairs it's required has been frigging nuts. If you can repair it yourself then fine, but if you have to have it repaired then I'd stay the fuck away. Â People make fun of Jeeps, but that car has 2x-3x more repairs in it than both my Jeeps combined and almost nothing on it is easy to work on. Â |
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See that Mazda behind it? Look at that one. Thank me later. |
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