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Makin' the move away from Apple
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Steve Adams
macrumors 68000
Toyotas are the kings of rust. There is a chassis graveyard behind the dealership here of tacoma and tundra chassis of 3 year old trucks that are so badly rusted that they exchange the chassis for new ones. My 10 year old Ford chassis is not even rusty yet. I have owned subarus and never had an issue with rust on them. Must have been a friday evening build your friend had where they forgot to apply the paint to the undercarriage of the car.
If you live anywhere besides the sunbelt, I would run away from toyotas.
That might be a truck issue and it wouldn't surprise me as there were a number of complaints on their trucks and SUVs since the pandemic started.
I have a 2012 Camry and zero rust issues. I had a 2000 Avalon and put 250K miles on it and no rust issues.
I'm on r/Camry and rust isn't an issue that's brought up, even on cars from the 1990s.
Steve Adams
macrumors 68000
My son's corolla was swiss cheese at 105,000kms. here. I guess they don't use salt where you live.
Steve Adams
macrumors 68000
This has been an issue long before the pandemic. Year after year from the first gen tacoma and the "truck" before it. At least the new taco's and Tundras are available in the right color now. Rust.
maflynn
macrumors Broadwell
I live by the ocean, and I've been owning a suby for years, and family friends have owned it. If I have one complaint, its that maintenance is expensive (relative to a chevy), but overall they're great cars, and well made.
Steve Adams
macrumors 68000
The flip side of that is that you will only be in the garage 1/4 of the times as a chevrolet product so you are actually saving money on maintenance.
I live in New Hampshire.
I have 70 pounds of salt in the basement right now; leftovers from this winter which has been brutal so far. There's a foot of snow forecast for the next seven days here.
maflynn
macrumors Broadwell
I own both, a chevy and a suby.
I've only needed to deal with typical maintenance stuff with the suby, as with the chevy. Both have similar maintenance cadence and so its very comparable, where its 100+ for an oil change, tire rotation, and about 80+ for the same thing for my Colorado.
I've used the local dealer for the vast majority of maintenance since 2000. I started using a local mechanic two years ago and they've been great, often fixing stuff inexpensively instead of replacing expensive parts. They are within walking distance so I just drive over, leave the car there and walk back home and then walk back when it's done. Big price difference overall. I can usually get an appointment the next day at the local place where it can be one to three weeks for my dealer.
The hard part is finding a trustworthy mechanic. Two neighbors and two friends recommended my current place.
Steve Adams
macrumors 68000
I had a 2005 suburban z71 and a 2010 Avalanche LTZ. the suburban was riddled with issues from the 70,000km mark including the knock sensors located under the intake manifold, the transmission decided to grenade at 122,000km, the 4wd actuator and control module at 149,000km. Oh various times on the suburban the lug nuts loosened up on the wheels almost falling off at least three times. We removed the garbage alloy chev wheels and replaced them with aftermarket steel wheels. Fixed that issue. The avalanche was a little better but had alternator issues, and the same 4wd issues and again the soft chevrolet alloy wheels where the lugs would loosen by themselves. My 2016 ford is starting to get long in the tooth mechanical wise, but it does have 210,000kms on it now. The AC compressor is needing replacement and two transmission lines broke to the cooler. That's it however. We have owned approx 30 plus ford F150s and had no major issues.
The biggest culprits however were our Jeep products. All but one wrangler were in the shop constantly for a variety of issues. Needless to say we will never own a jeep product again. They are the worst of the worst. My brother has a new gladiator mojave. at 9000km not 90k, 9k, the ball joints and tie rod end were toast causing the beginnings of death wobble on the highway.
Steve Adams
macrumors 68000
Yes, I have a great shop I go to. They are a little more expensive, but they actually listen to me, and not go on random chases for what is wrong with my vehicles. I know my way around cars. I helped Subaru Canada with their rally cars for the Targa here, and built about 6 other race cars for the same race.
Steve Adams
macrumors 68000
My son sold his corolla and got the new Crosstrek. What an awesome car. It's not big enough for us with Colin being 6'1". But for my son, it's ideal. He's blown away with snow and wet weather performance of the car. It's awesome.
maflynn
macrumors Broadwell
Odds are high that liquid glass is in the future, but we'll probably not know for sure until WWDC. I'm generally pleased with Tahoe, no real complaints.
I am going to start a thread about how awesome tahoe is. THEN maybe, if I am lucky, a bunch of people who abhor tahoe will show up to argue. Then I will be among my people. tahoe is a prime example of change for the sake of change. That rarely works out, if ever. Does not anyone remember how effing fast MS got rid of Vista? At least they did that right 🙂 That was because AERO GLASS SUCKS. Period.
eltoslightfoot
macrumors 68040
That's literally what I bought - a 2019 Crosstrek. I really like it. I live in one of those (usually) snowy midwest states. It's really nice in snow (when we get some).
macaddiict
macrumors 6502
"ios 7" design lasted until about ios18 but they were very different and refined the changes over the next few versions
boswald
macrumors 68030
I like it a lot on my Mac, but I wish they'd revert or change a few things on the iPhone. I want those crisp iOS 18 icons back!
The thing I've noticed on my iPhone 13 mini and iPad mini 6 is that 26 is faster at doing things but drains battery faster too.
The larger UI elements are good on the iPad mini but not so good on a device the size of the iPhone 13 mini.
maflynn
macrumors Broadwell
I'm waiting to see how Apple responds, come WWDC. Its a few months away and we'll know if they'll be doubling down on liquid glass or not as they unveil ios/ipados/macos 27.
I'm not saying I'll leave the apple ecosystem if they continue with LG, but it will be good to see if and how they respond to the criticisms. One thing is sure, adoption rate is a lot slower then prior versions of ios/macos and there's lots of complaints.
eltoslightfoot
macrumors 68040
maflynn
macrumors Broadwell
True dat
In all honesty I really don't see them walking liquid glass back much, but I'm also one that doesn't really hate it, at least in its current incarnation.