GE works well in the McMansions. I know. I have one myself. True 2000's 6k sf / 6 bedroom (for a family of 4). Bought it as a fixer-upper in 2015. Excellent bones, but looked like LL Bean and MTV puked all over it when I came along for about $0.65 on the dollar (guy was desperate to sell). Everything in it was some type of "euro-spec" nightmare. All been replaced with mainstream easy to fix stuff. From the GE appliance to replacing the worn out Lennox hvac units with basic Trane that just popped its first capacitor last week, a $9.97 / 20 minute repair. When I saw this in late 2023, it's pushed me over the goal line for the Ford Bronco. Just 7 bolts and a few clips in about 30 minutes time, and this happens. Anything and everything can be fixed on it with ease. Even the internals of the transmission, instead of just fully replaced. There is real value in simplistic now a days!!

 

No problem Daimler will make a huge donation to Trump's family or one of his pet projects and the rules will suddenly be changed. The grift will continue.

 

Well said, 100%. Exactly.. I am just like you. I do research research research, and very selectively choose the car particular if it's my own daily. If it's cheaply built, I can spot it and I leave it for someone else to track it's issues all around. Mbenz and german manufacturers are still able to produce high quality cars for some models and model years, and it often comes to picking up the right model and the right options.

I also agree about your 2021 and how several other cars/SUVs in the 2020-2025 era are still very reliable and even better than previous gen. The part that is laughable is when folks try to justify trash purchases as if it's the norm nowadays for all other options on the market. Cars are not appliances, and cars aren't HVAC units. Even then, just like you said, I have high quality purchases in our home that are really solid, reliable and from experience look like they will last really long and even much simpler to fix. Your GLE is solid; I am also more than happy with a number of units and cars I bought since 2020. It is just too wishful thinking to make broad empty statements that all brands and every model is trash like others, just because there are a few models that introduced very cheap build quality compared to previous models. The GLS/GLE for example, although they have some material issues, they are genuinely better in cabin build quality than the previous generation. Same for so many sedans I bought in the last 5-6 years. Each and every one of them is better than the one before, with a massive step up in build quality over the previous generation and over the competition. Huge step up in quality and new materials/leathers/etc. At the end of the day, folks only know what they have, and generalization of the fact that all new cars going forward are poorly built with cheap cabins is just a reflection of the cheap bad choices that folks may have made or maybe a way to ease the dilemma they have. Personally, and from real-life experience, and just like your GLE example, I've also been lucky to be in several dailys that are significantly better in build quality than previous/older ones.

There are some models that are truly disappointing now... some are entry models and some are flagships; but they do not represent the reality that the market still has several options that blows away every other option in the segment as well as previous generation. I still have trust in the auto-industry. We just need to be selective and not settle for less. Bad cars will not sell well; manufactures will get the message and make them better. Just don't buy them.

 

Hi can you please send me a DM/PM, I'm not yet allowed to do so as a new member. Would like to discuss issues with harmonic dampers/crankshaft pulleys.

 

Another reason I am so happy I left Ill-Noise for Florida. Fact is, I think that NO ONE who is not a citizen should have the right to own tangible property in the United States. More and more (working in healthcare) this should also go for corperations who own medical practices (a sperate entity from the facilities - or tangible properties). This would be an equal and oppsite law that is currently in place in China and India....as we know, European laws can vary.

The United States seems to be so hell bent on allowing a slow take over of our nation by forign entities. The reality is - if US Corperations could own properties in China/India at the scale they own things in the US...well, we would own those nation almost in whole.

This AM I have court AGAIN due to a criminally corrupt doctor who is in the US on a Visa - when then over billed insurance to the tune of $50m (yes, million) over two years. I do not at all expect him to be at court as we assume he is back in India by now. So, yeah - I am cranky about this (I always get cranky when the FBI starts going to patients homes to interview them).....over a freaking international Dermatologist!!!!

 

I'm proud to say I got 10.1 years out of my 2015 state-of-the-art HVAC system at home. (The warranty was 10.0 years.)[/QUOTE]

My buddy is a top level HVAC guy, the absolute most important thing to do is change the filter 4 times a year regardless, and if you do not to use the "highest MERV filter", it put undo strain on the blower. Second is to clean the out door unit. A lot of people don't realize a clean out door unit keeps the refrigerant coil pressure as low as they can be and keeps their efficiency up. The SEER rating is greatly influenced by how clean the coils outside are. The indoor coil stays relatively clean by changing the filter regularly.

 

[QUOTE=lungs414;9296380change the filter 4 times a year regardless.[/QUOTE]


I have two Golden Retrieivers and two cats....that filter gets changed every two weeks

 

Yeah, people naturally assume that an expensive ultra-filtering air filter is better when in fact it isn’t because of the strain it can put on your system. It also tends to make AC systems run longer just because it takes more effort to circulate the same volume of air that a less restrictive filter would. I get the cheapest air filter there is use a separate HEPA air purifier for my house.

 

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Fun times

 

Can we stop profiling people based on their origins? There are far more criminal US citizens than there are criminal immigrants. Maybe clean the own house first.

 

Interesting you refer to the immigrants as criminal, your words not mine. The immigrants who are here illegally are criminals from the moment they get here, not meant to be a political statement but a fact. My grandparents went through the system legally and with a lot work, time and expense, and were extremely proud Americans. As far as profiling where they come from, I agree who cares, BUT in MY opinion they must legally go through the process.

 

I did not refer to immigrants as criminals. I said criminal immigrants, which is a subset of all immigrants, just like criminal US citizens is a subset. I neither said all immigrants nor all US citizens are criminals. Read and comprehend what I wrote, not what you want it to say. You know adjectives? It's the word in front of a noun that modifies said noun. WTF!

 

My reading comprehension is fine. Scored very high on the SAT back in the day.

Your poorly used words, "criminal immigrants" not mine.


criminal
/ˈkrimənl/
A criminal is a person who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime. As an adjective, the term describes acts, conduct, or proceedings that involve the violation of law.


Maybe stop making political comments on a car forum. Just a suggestion but you do you.

 

Pointless to argue with you further. My gawd. I also used the words criminal US citizens, so that's ok then? If I said green bananas, it wouldn't mean all bananas are green. Old Man found it necessary to bring immigration status in this conversation. It wasn't me. You deserve a spot on my ignore list.

 

Did I write it was ok. I'm not for ANY criminals. And all I see from Old Mans post is a courtroom picture, and Fun times. For all you know or I know from the post I see is he is in traffic court. Hence the sarcastic comment. Thats how I would interpret it. Unless there is more to his post that I don't see. Either way YOU made it political not me.

Proud to be on your list.

Have the day you deserve.

 

Re comments about quality re HVAC…..I have a 2003 York 3.5-ton unit with gas pack serving our downstairs. Have had a couple of repairs but it’s still functioning fine. We added onto the house in 2016, and a Rheem unit was installed in the downstairs portion, and we have already replaced the coil twice and the control board once (parts under warranty but still had labor cost). When we replaced the coil last summer, there were so many with issues, it took two weeks to get one. Also had Mitsubishi ductless mini split unit installed in the upstairs addition, which we have already replaced.

As to MB, I’ve had my 2020 GLS 450 (MSRP 106k, with E-ABC, 3D High End Burmester, etc) since November of 2022 (now has 60k miles), with extended warranty thru February 2027. Was planning on a newer vehicle at that time, but to me a comparably equipped 26 or new 27 is just not worth the $50-75k difference I would have to pay. My plan has been revised to just keep the current GLS and consider an extended Fidelity Platinum warranty for protection, although I have had no issues other than a couple that were resolved with software updates.

 

Absolutely superswiss, and my apologies if I offended you or anyone else.

In my own defense, in no manner did I intended to profile a race. My comments are directed more towards my own frustrations via repeated personal experiences of products produced by a specific country that is becoming one of the most economically influential in the global economy. I simply have grown to question the quality of the products made in China now. That said, I do not call out the Chinese people, but I do call out the Chinese government and their economic policies on several fronts. I call out our own government as well for putting us on this path of having our workers competing against a workforce in a communist society of unfair business practices. Nobody can compete in situations like that, the game is rigged, fingers on the scale. We are as much to blame as anyone else. China is the master at the "shiny new trinket" game, and the west are suckers for it every time. I have to give it to China, they have played the free capitalism markets like a fiddle for decades now. China has become the world's producer of goods, and the western governments have allowed their corporations to take full advantage of that for their own profit margins. The losers are the workers, and in many situations, the consumer of the goods they produce.

 

All good. I wasn't offended. I just find the direction this conversation was heading very unproductive.

 

Agree, and perhaps I should have just left that news clip off the forum in general. Not quite as bad, but right up there with a thread about how Mobile1 is better than AMSOIL!!

 

To be accurate, being an illegal immigrant is not necessarily a crime. Most illegal immigrants were here on visas and overstayed their visas, thats not a crime its a civil infraction.

 

Let's just delete this entire thread. I regret starting it. It's not GLS specific. I'll own it as my error.....

 

for arguments sake, where does the US importer, business, or brand come into culpability. Products made in China don’t just appear out of thin air on US shelves because a factory or the Chinese government “had an idea””. Your blame has been placed on governments, and not the people making the business choice. The only general rule of government in business is to balance trade…(hopefully in your favor) and as far as rigged, remember that some of the richest people in the world had the greatest US government subsidy.