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if you drive correctly a clutch will never wear out. but, if the XXXX throwout bearing has the slave cylinder built into it. you will have trouble with that and have to take the whole thing apart to change it. I hate that.
Scotty I love your channel but I think you are over stepping yourself talking about whether CR can be trusted. As stated earlier there is no advertising in CR and they buy the vehicles they test. Their staff is on a salary they don’t get paid by the article and they typically do not simply review a car but test it very thoroughly before the team working on that car puts together a report. So although your comment about people being bribed is a valid concern it seems unlikely at CR based on how they assess the products that they test.
As far as only trusting mechanics to give you an honest opinion of a particular car. If I asked a Toyota mechanic that worked at a dealer what he thought of Toyota’s he might have nothing good to say because all he did all day was work on Toyota’s with problems so on this topic Scotty I think you should take your own advice and stick to what you do know talk about cars not the magazine business
Scotty, Consumer Reports buys every car they test. They're beholding to no one.
I don't know I don't think so Scotty I mean maybe a few years ago possibly people would have stopped driving gas Hogs when gas prices get high but you got to think about it currently we're in a bling bling Society everybody wants to show how much money they have honestly I think if gas prices were to get six or seven dollars a gallon I think you're going to see a lot of people still driving over sized SUVs because they want people to know yeah gas is 8 bucks a gallon and I can afford to drive this super baller I'm just saying
I've never been steered wrong by Consumer Reports.
Consumer Reports isn't very subjective in rating articles
2012 Chevy Cruze 6 speed MT… clutch replaced at 50k. Not because it was worn, but something fell apart inside. Started to show same syndrome at 100k, I quickly traded it in.
Concerning Americas much cheaper oil prices , Its one of the biggest scams on the planet , As its mandatory that oil is traded in US dollars and America is the only country in the world who can legally print American dollars America has been getting free oil for decades .
FYI, Scotty….Consumer Reports is a non-profit that doesn’t accept advertising. They have their own labs and yet facility. That said, you have to take into account that when they say a car is crap, it’s based on an average so a crap car in THEIR book, might be okay in real life cuz you got a good one…(Like my ‘93 Suzuki Sidekick I put 350K on, they said was crap…) Anyway, Is use them for sure if I was researching a buy…
The problem with consumer report is that their car reliability chart provides hardly any information. It gives scores to models but does not tell what exactly is good or bad about it. Truedelta is a much better source.