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Originally Posted by RickyRacer
You can’t say that with a straight face
Go to a dealership and try a 20 model and tell me you haven’t noticed a change. Hell even go to a 86 meetup and ask one of your buddies if with a lower mileage 86 they can give you a ride. Just because you’ve grown accustomed to it getting harsher and harsher over time doesn’t mean it’s not there. 180k without any suspension work I bet you can’t even drive your coffee to work without spilling it
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I can say that with a straight face.... and this is from a 2015 ES I just sold last year after piling on 150k in less than 5 years. I actually went through the trouble of replacing everything on the car suspension-wise, short of the axle.
All the before/after work resulted in kind of no real improvements in the issues I was having (choppy ride quality over expansion joints, road noise, etc). Finally I gave up and "test drove" a CPO same general ES from my friend's dealer, and realized that I had driven the car for so long that I was starting to notice every small thing wrong with it from the first day.
A lot of the perceived problems that car enthusiasts may find in a car (that they've owned since new) is that they notice everything that can be possibly wrong. I am guilty of that, and sometimes it's just not there.
Ironically I sold the car because of a problem that I thought was just me, but turned out to be a major problem: the planetary gear bearing in the CVT was slowly going bad and causing a small humming noise at freeway speeds.
New cars are always nice.. until you start noticing what's wrong with them as well.
on a side note, if I drove 180k worth of mileage between Ontario California and Las Vegas, the car would be brand new. High mileage isn't the issue, it's the type of roads you drive on.