From: Bill Seurer 
Newsgroups: alt.building.construction alt.home.repair alt.mobilehome misc.consumers.house rec.woodworking
Subject: Re: Wooden Stud's Last Stand
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 00:52:32 -0600

Matthew S. Whiting wrote:

> Mark wrote:
>> And now we have upscale junk cars with record numbers of recalls.
> 
> 
> They didn't even have recalls in the days I'm talking about.  Given 
> their complexity, modern cars are amazingly reliable and have very few 
> recalls.

They didn't have recalls because the government hadn't gotten enough 
guts to require them yet.  Of course no one worried one bit about safety 
in any case.

New cars are incredibly reliable.  Scheduled service is often only every 
30,000 miles.  My first few cars were every 7500 miles.