I am finding it it difficult to understand what some are saying here.

I have had a number of cars and wouldnt excpect a car of this quality to have reliability issues - all cars may have some issues - minor at worst - but to do trannies or torque converters at such low km I beleive is simply not acceptible.

i was told by people in the trade that these cars have a 500k klm service life, they have been designed to operate for 500k klm before being scrapped i suppose.

I always looked at buying quality as paying for something upfront that would outlast something cheaper without the headaches.

obviously you need to perform routine maintenance and my cars get that done every 10k not 20k as suggested by manufacturer - all things being equall they should last.

fortunatley i could afford to fix my car but like anything, no one likes to through money away.