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Originally Posted by SkipB
I was just curious if anyone had a 100% trouble free experience with their new car. I assume not, but there may be lots of them out there?
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There's bound to be
somebody, but I've never met them.
I think the build job by ERA and my engine maker was absolutely top notch.
BUT, it's taken me close to five years to get it to where I could even
think about driving for, say, a couple of days straight without it breaking down. And all of the bugs that left me stranded (with exception of the harmonic balancer flying apart), were teeny, weeny, eensy little things, like a set screw backing out of the clutch linkage, or a bolt coming loose on the transmision linkage, or a fuse holder melting on the fans. Those were really little things to fix -- but they all resulted in me either being towed home, or limping, just barely with my fingers crossed, home. Now I've been following Tin-Man's journey, and he and I chat via email a good bit as well. It sounds like the non-start issue (distributor/rotor bolt) was pretty minor (just like my clutch linkage hanging on the ground from one backed out screw). It could very well turn out that all of the other stuff is equally minor, but tricky to find. Only time will tell -- and I think, for most of us, that it takes years to get our Cobras anywhere remotely as reliable as, say, my daughter's POS Toyota.
