Proven 200,000 mile cars What been your experience?

[BeyondtheHorizon]

Originally Posted by GearHeadDave

Have to disagree with you on this. Having worked as a reliability engineer both for a Big 3 company, and also for a Japanese auto maker, the way they approach durability and reliability is enormously different. Toyota and Honda have an extremely rigorous approach and attention to even the minutest detail is given during the development cycle, particularly for body and chassis. Don't get me wrong, the Big 3, especially Ford is beginning to catch up, but T and H had a big head start. This has nothing to do with country of origin; when Hyundai began producing vehicles their reliability was atrocious. In the last 5 years Hyundai is gaining ground rapidly though.

Hyundai makes garbage nowadays. Just google hyundai engine seizing. Major recalls, which solved nothing since it was a design flaw.

They started out terrible. Then in the early to mid 2000s made really good cars. Around 2011, they started to make garbage again with engines throwing a rod bearing and completely failing.

http://www.hyundaiproblems.com/trends/theta-ii-engine/

[waltchan]

Originally Posted by BeyondtheHorizon

Hyundai makes garbage nowadays. Just google hyundai engine seizing. Major recalls, which solved nothing since it was a design flaw.

They started out terrible. Then in the early to mid 2000s made really good cars. Around 2011, they started to make garbage again with engines throwing a rod bearing and completely failing.

Theta II Engine | Hyundai Problems

That problems were already corrected today since 5 years or so. Now, Hyundai and Kia are more-reliable than Toyota and Honda.

[EckyX]

On Insight Central there’s a high mileage club, with many vehicles over 400,000. I’m also aware of a bunch of extremely high mile Priuses. These hybrids seem very reliable if not abused.

[BeyondtheHorizon]

Originally Posted by waltchan

That problems were already corrected today since 5 years or so. Now, Hyundai and Kia are more-reliable than Toyota and Honda.

If the problem was corrected only 5 years ago, then you can't properly measure long term reliability yet of those newer models against toyota and honda since most models are still low mileage.