dabretty wrote:Do you also spend vast amounts of time in car enthusiast forums, for makes/models of vehicles that you don't own, talking about how that vehicle is flawed and whatever you drive is better? I can't believe how much time and effort that you spend here, for a guy that claims to not have an Echo (let alone any Ceton product).
I think it's been discussed many, many times that everyone's mileage with the Echo has and will vary. Somehow you show up in every thread and take it down this path, ultimately ending up in "my legacy extenders are better" territory. We get it, you don't own and you don't like the Echo!
No, but if someone asks about a car that I owned in the past, I will certainly tell them about MY experience with that car. In this case, the car called the Ceton Echo just plain sucked. I owned that car. It took almost a minute to start the engine when I first got in the car. When I tried to drive it for more than 30 minutes, the engine died and it took 5 minutes to get it started again. Sometimes it even crashed the gasoline pump!
The manufacturer promised a bunch of features which they never delivered. They also promised that they would fix the existing problems, but after about a year... they finally announced that they could not fix it because there was something wrong with the ECU (Engine Control Unit)... and the ECU manufacturer wasn't going to provide a fix. The car manufacturer should have issued a recall, but they didn't. They just expected the buyers to live with the problems which they blamed on the ECU manufacturer.
In response to some of my problems, the manufacturer of the car told me that I should try replacing the
road that I was driving it on... even though all my other cars could drive on the same road with no problems. It sucked so bad that I returned it for a refund! The used cars that I bought, which were about 5 years old, performed better than the new Ceton Echo. I think that's important information.
So, after driving that car for 4 months, and hoping for a fix to the myriad of problems, I returned it. Does that disqualify me from expressing my opinions about the car which I once owned?
If Ford, GM or Chrysler did that to you, you'd be first in line to sue them in court! I realize that this thing cost less than 200 bucks, but what Ceton did is no less despicable.
BTW, by definition, the Echo
is a legacy extender! It uses the GDI interface like the legacy extenders, and it is no longer in production... with very little support and no future updates/upgrades. That's my definition of "legacy". What's yours?
And, while we're on the subject of cars... the 2005 Saturn VUE is the worst car I've ever owned. I drive a LOT. I put about 36,000 miles per year on my cars. Most of the cars I've owned had more than 200,000 miles on them before I got rid of them and bought a new one. I got rid of my VUE when the
parts were going to cost me more than the value of the vehicle (I do my own labor on my vehicles). I've never had a vehicle which had as many problems as that one. It sucked. The only reasons I bought it was because it was an amazing deal and "Saturn" had a good reputation for quality. I've avoided GM cars most of my life because I've seen first-hand the shoddy engineering of GM on many occasions. My father worked for GM. You wouldn't believe the stories he told about how they build the cars. Most of my cars have been Ford or Chrysler vehicles, with a few imports sprinkled here and there. I've had the best experience with Chrysler. I'm happy to tell people to avoid GM vehicles due to my experience. I'm also happy to tell people to avoid Ceton for the very same reason.
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