Yeah, instead of âno one cares about what car you driveâ it should be âyou shouldnât concern yourself with the opinion of anyone who cares about what car you driveâ.
15yo Hyundai hatchback
surprisingly reliable
Youâve been lucky then. That I believe is in the era of Hyundai/Kia where theyâd chew up replacement engines like crazy. But I guess it didnât affect all engines.
The car was a hand-me-down from one of our grandparents, with ~100K miles on the odometer.
They owned it since new, and like most old peopleâs cars - it was religiously serviced. Keeping up with maintenance goes a long way towards keeping most cars on the road (unless theyâre BMWs, but thatâs a whole other story).
Keeping up with maintenance goes a long way towards keeping most cars on the road (unless theyâre BMWs, but thatâs a whole other story).
Ironically, well maintained BMWs have significantly better durability than Hyundais of that era, just not reliability.
I see M57 engined BMWs doing 500k+ km all the time. ZF 6HP transmissions are pretty good too. Yet the BMW E60/E61 and similar era 3 and 7 series that had these engines and transmissions are considered very unreliable, because everything else around that super solid core breaks down every now and then. They last forever, theyâll just leave you stranded crying when some plastic pipe in the god damn cooling system breaks again.
