Re: [DML] John Delorean and Reliability.

["DMC Joe" <dmcjoe@xxxx>]

Here are the facts.

The Chevy Vega engine was all aluminum including the piston liners, this
caused an excessive amount of cylinder wall ware resulting in oil being
pushed past the piston rings resulting in excessive oil burning. I owned a
1974 Vega; at approximately 35k miles it was burning a quart of oil per day.

The DeLorean PRV-6 is constructed with cast iron cylinder liners resulting
in engine life in excess of 200k miles.

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----- Original Message -----
From: Sternbach, William [IT] <William_Sternbach@xxxx>
To: <dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 29, 2000 1:50 PM
Subject: [DML] John Delorean and Reliability.


> [MODERATOR'S NOTE: DeLorean reliability has been discussed on the list in
the past. It's been a while since it was last dicussed, so I'm letting this
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>
>
> Hello,
>
> I just wanted to make a polite comment about John Delorean and
Reliability.
>
> When John Delorean was an executive at General Motors,
> he introduced a new car to compete with the foreign economy cars.
> It was the Chevy Vega. It had a 2.3 Liter Overhead Cam 4 Cylinder engine.
> My sister bought a Chevy Vega brand new.
>
> She constantly had problems with it and after 1 year, she traded it in
> to the dealer and she took a big financial loss.
> The Chevy Vega was GM's least reliable car of all time.
> Most Chevy Vega's never lasted long enough to make it to 50,000 miles.
>
> When John Delorean created the DMC-12,
> I believe that reliability was similar to the Chevy Vega's.
> Most DMC-12's have less than 50,000 miles because it is difficult
> to keep the DMC-12 running continuously for a long period of time
> to accumulate 50,000 miles.
>
> I am a fan of John Delorean and the DMC-12's,
> but I hope it is ok if I make this polite comment that cars that he
designed
> have poor reliability.
>
> It seems the best DMC-12's to buy are the ones with over 30,000 miles,
> because most of the problems have already been fixed by the previous
> owner. Another member of this list told me that if you buy one of these
> "fixed" deloreans, you can expect troublefree operation for a long time.
>
> What do you think?