I'm knocking on wood here and not making any judgements, but mine has been pretty trouble free. Two distributor caps and rotors and a fuel filter have been it in 6 thousand miles. Car had 31K on it when I bought it. If it starts to cause me grief I'll unload it in a hurry.

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