My daughter's first car, bought for her by her husband after she got her driver's license (which she did not get until after she got married, she didn't keep her end of the deal when she lived at home) was a K car, and it was a total piece of junk. A friend of mine was the Parts Department Manager at the local Plymouth dealer, and I was able to pull a string or two to get through to people who are normally insulated from contact with the unwashed public ("How did you get this number?") and eventually Plymouth backed down and agreed to replace the car. The car spent more time in the shop in the first four or five months she had it, than it did in her hands, unfortunately never for the same problem three times which would have triggered NY State's Lemon Law. Broken motor mount; bent bracket under the dash, which is where the brake light switch was mounted, wouldn't steer straight or hold alignment, stalling at lights, and other stuff, that's all I remember.UpTheIrons wrote:Once graduation got close, my folks sprung for a 1984 Plymouth K car. I can't say enough about that car, because what I'd say would violate enough rules to get me banned before this post would show up on the page. What a total piece of junk!
The day before she was to take the car in for replacement, she was rear ended at a red light. The other driver said she didn't have any brake lights, which was true because the brake light switch bracket had broken, but she had been stopped at the light, fully stopped, before he rammed her, and that indicated, since that was his statement to the responding police officer, that he was paying no attention to the traffic light, or her manual signal, her arm out the window, which put him directly at fault.
He drove her into the intersection where she was t-boned, luckily all of the grandkids were properly secured and nobody was hurt, but the car was totalled. Eventually his insurance paid and she got a new car, but what a hassle.