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From: Noddy on 20 Apr 2010 01:26 "Clocky" <notgonn(a)happen.com> wrote in message news:4bcd223a$0$8847$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com... > Mileage may vary, but there is no question that the early Magna autos were > weak and the timing chains were a rattley affair across the board. Can't > complain though, junk like that provided a regular cash flow for our > specialist Renault/Puegeot/Citroen workshop. They made a lot of people a *lot* of money. Three vehicles played a very significant role in buying my first house, and they were the first model Magna, the late 80's Ford Transit and the EA/EB Falcon. Thanks to Ford and MMAL putting out such absolute rubbish, my business thrived and I made a very good living. -- Regards, Noddy.
From: D Walford on 20 Apr 2010 01:44 On 20/04/2010 1:28 PM, OzOne(a)Crackerbox-Palace.com wrote: > Funny init...I had a VS Commodore and a TE Magna Funny how the thread is about the first Magna's, not Magnas released 10yrs later which were a very different much improved car. Daryl
From: tipsy on 19 Apr 2010 07:22 On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 16:23:24 -0700 (PDT), 380VRX <mmal380vrx(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > when it was released it had 4 wheel disc brakes standard accross the > range and they were rated very highly for reliability over holden and > ford I was in the Navy and I agree that the Magna was a head.
From: Clocky on 20 Apr 2010 03:35 Noddy wrote: > "Clocky" <notgonn(a)happen.com> wrote in message > news:4bcd223a$0$8847$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com... > >> Mileage may vary, but there is no question that the early Magna >> autos were weak and the timing chains were a rattley affair across >> the board. Can't complain though, junk like that provided a regular >> cash flow for our specialist Renault/Puegeot/Citroen workshop. > > They made a lot of people a *lot* of money. > > Three vehicles played a very significant role in buying my first > house, and they were the first model Magna, the late 80's Ford > Transit and the EA/EB Falcon. Thanks to Ford and MMAL putting out > such absolute rubbish, my business thrived and I made a very good > living. I also have no reason to complain about the junk MMAL and Ford produced in that era either, it went a long way towards paying off my mortgage by age 30 ;-)
From: hippo on 20 Apr 2010 04:01
Noddy wrote: > > > "Clocky" <notgonn(a)happen.com> wrote in message > news:4bcd1850$0$8773$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com... > > > The Sigma/early Magna fiasco seeded the demise of MMAL... public > > confidence in their cars plummeted and they never recovered. > > Absolutely. > > > Case in point, my Grandfather had a thing for Chrysler and then > > Mitsubishi, and he bought a Sigma Scorpion new when they came out. First > > the clutch failed and then the gearbox crapped itself and when the engine > > started rattling he got so pissed with it that he traded it in on a > > Pintara (of all things, but which never gave him any trouble) and never > > considered another Mitsubishi again. > > Don't blame him. > > As you know I used to do a lot of fleet maintenance, and one of my clients > had around 14 early Magna's at one stage. Every single one of them was a > terrible car despite them all being purchased new and dealer serviced until > they were 12 months old. They had so many problems it wasn't funny with the > biggest complaint (that being a non mechanical failure) being fuel > consumption. They simply *ate* fuel like they were going to stop making it > tomorrow, and their consumption was worse that many larger cars. > > This particular company off loaded their whole fleet 12 months short of > their lease ending (which apparently was the only time they did so) and > replaced the things with a mixture of Falcons and Nissans and their > maintenance and running costs took a huge nose dive. At their next change > they went with Camry's exclusively and their maintenance costs were down 75% > compared to the days of the Magna's. > > -- > Regards, > Noddy. > > > > You've reminded me of a car dealer in Parramatta about 30 yrs ago. They had 5 or 6 earlyish (but new then) Geminis as their courtesy car fleet. When they were subsequently replaced with Barinas, the service and repair bill for all the Barinas combined was about the same as it had been for *each* Gemini the year before. -- Posted at www.usenet.com.au |