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[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 16 points 1 day ago

I can't recall the year, but it was a Dodge Aries K-car, to pin down the era. Jesus. It was a replacement for when my 1970 VW Beetle died in an accident. It was not as good as the Beetle, which says a lot.

I did once for a job briefly drive a Chevy Chevette. That might have been worse than the Aries.

[-] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 3 points 19 hours ago

My parents bought a Plymouth Reliant K Car. It was so bad that no one in my extended family has ever considered purchasing a Chrysler product since. I don't understand how Iacocca saving Chrysler with the K car was not prosecuted as fraud on the American people. That thing was a piece of shit. My favorite feature was how the air conditioner had a condensation collection tray that would fill with water as it operated. Then when you stopped the water would slosh out onto the feet of the front passenger. The floor in ours eventually rusted from the AC condensate. (Lived in Houston which is both humid and hot requiring year round AC). It had plenty of other problems too (shitty carb, bad brakes, lots of squeaks and rattles). My parents sold it before I was old enough to drive.

[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 3 points 10 hours ago

My favorite feature was how the air conditioner had a condensation collection tray that would fill with water as it operated.

That seemed to be a thing for that time period of cars, as I can recall others that did the same thing. How was that better than just a tube to the outside? Why?

Also a feature of cars then, having the vent to recirculate air close from the inside. Why is that a problem? Well, it isn't until the car is moving fast, and then air pressure from the outside pushes the door open just enough to whistle. Again, was money saved by doing it wrong?

[-] Cratermaker@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 16 hours ago

I had one of those that was grandma-owned but the transmission shit the bed within 5k miles. What a pos.

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