Wife is looking for a good convert 2000+ yr, any good ones out there that aren't $$$? Options

[Jeremy1210]

So my wifes dream car is a Mitsu eclipse convert, and we happen to find one that looks great. A 98 GS with 94xxx miles on it. My question is, are they good reliable cars? What are big things I should look for?

Looking for any help here cause last time I bought a used car it was a total lemon and I can't afford that hassel and headache again

Thanks

This post has been edited by Jeremy1210: Apr 17, 2006 - 8:05 AM

[Scott]

Chrysler Sebring 2001+ are good cars. They changed the body style in 2001 and also started making them in America instead of Mexico = better quality. My dad has one.

[creamed_corn]

Chrysler Sebring 2001+ are good cars. They changed the body style in 2001 and also started making them in America instead of Mexico = better quality. My dad has one.

Where a car made has nothing to do with its quality.

It has everything to do with engineering tolerances and assembly line quality control. Some production plants do this better than others. Did you know that by checking 96 units in a potentially infinite run of parts that you can get a 95% accuracy/acceptability rating (+/- 5%)? To get that number higher you only have to inspect a few hundred units more. You know who developed this practice? Ford Motor Co. back in the 20's. Somewhere along the line they just stopped doing it, and when the Japanese wanted to get into auto manufacuting in the 70's they looked to see what ford was doing to make their cars so well and they basically just implemented this inspection system which they still do today. I don't really know why American car companies stopped doing this all together.

The reliability of a car is reflexive of all those little deviations in their parts. If you can keep that to a minimum, you'll have a good car. Mexican workers are just as capable of doing this as Americans or Canadians are; it's just a matter of wether it's standard business practice.