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Originally Posted by peterbrown77
Why can't Porsche find better suppliers? Starters, water pumps, radios....I've never seen a car with so few miles generate so many problems from accessories with which other manufacturers have achieved bullet-proof reliability 30 years ago. I "get" that brakes and tires are going to wear faster on a Porsche due to alignment settings and trade-offs between performance and reliability. However, a starter should never fail - nor a water pump. It's not exactly doing the toughest job in all of autodom, all it needs to do is spin under no-load. The last time I had to do a water pump on a mainstream car was in a 92 Ford with 260,000 miles on it. I couldn't exactly fault the car. I don't think I've replaced a starter since my '87 Cherokee.
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I'm in this guy's boat.
My Ranger has a 3.0, 225k on odo, has worked many times harder hauling massive loads, dozens of mountain & desert trips, lived outside for 5-6 years, has many times the starts, 6th clutch, has idled in winter as a shelter for outside work, and I just swapped the WP which was $80. Original starter. Alternator died last year.
P car has new starter, WP, alt, and so on at 130k, and WP had been swapped before.
Ford should have bought Porsche for some new perspective.