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Old 07-06-2012, 02:08 PM   #257
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Originally Posted by SVTSHC View Post
Treat a car well and it'll treat you well. For all you know your friends might have been showing their stangs a certain amount of neglect; that sort of thing is usually returned to the owner ten-fold. Problems don't stay the same, they snowball and evolve; a neglected oil change today becomes a seized motor, a neglected wheel bearing could cost you an entire hub (or your life), a neglected seized caliper could start a fire, etc...

What I'm trying to say is you can't base quality and reliability on someone elses ownership/ownership habits.

So, premature failure in any automotive part is always the users fault? In a sense then, we should not take "performance" cars through any hard driving, cause if a part breaks or wears out faster than expected it's just our fault and the build quality had nothing to do with it? Is that what I'm understanding?

I can understand absolute blatant disregard for the vehicle. But to blanket it as if everyone who has an issue is just simply irresponsible, I can't agree with that.
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