[406 Q-ship]

Originally Posted by tucsonjwt

I think it is great that people posting here have trucks that have never let them down. i, however, have owned 3 old squares and all 3 of them have broken down on multiple occasions, even with diligent preventive maintenance. So, if I absolutely needed a reliable daily driver I would not trust an old truck. Judging from some of the other posts on this forum I think others have trucks with pesky persistent problems (starting, driveability, etc.) which bring into question reliability on at least some of these old trucks.

and there are brand new vehicles that have presistent problems too. Like I said you must be willing to listen to what the vehicle is telling you.....where it is old or new. I don't know how many vehicles I worked on or hear daily where the brakes are squealing against the rotors, the driver totally ignoring them with the stereo blasting (1st repair procedure turn the radio up to cover the sound). Alot of the repairs on old vehicles that are less than reliable are ones where some yahoo somewhere thinks he knows better than the original manufacture and do some hokie repair (read that as mickey mouse), I have fought repairs many over 30 years of service life on most vehicles I have owned.