----- Original Message ----- From: "John Coyle" Subject: Re: New telephoto lenses?
>I wonder if the condition of the roads makes any difference? I don't know > whether Bill's locality has rough roads or not: but, for me, since > 99.99(recurring)% of my driving is on city or highway surfaces, I'm not > surprised that my Honda Integra is now 10 years old and has cost me very > little apart from regular servicing. One air-conditioning module in the > non-consumable range so far, and it's about to have the power steering > seals > and the rear suspension bushes replaced, both due to the age of the > vehicle. > No sign of any deterioration or breakages to the drive train at all. We have pretty bad streets. The soil type we have here is very unstable, and we have extreme freeze/thaw cycles. Little Japanese cars don't stand a chance around here. The other problem with them is that the extreme cold wreaks havoc on axle boots and the like, since they are prone to splitting in the cold. OTOH, we don't have a lot of failures due to rust out, as we have a pretty dry climate, and are nowhere close to salt air. We don't salt the streets either. I would imagine a Honda would last just about forever in a mild, dry climate, as would most any car. The vehicles that last longest around here are full size trucks. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
