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Old 11-03-2009, 08:29 PM
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Disagree.

Reliability is the result of: 1) Proper engineering 2) Quality materials 3) Careful assembly.

A WWI plane requires many, many hours of maintenance for each hour of flight. But as long as it is a WWI plane, it will never be reliable.
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Old 11-03-2009, 08:43 PM
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Motorcycle reliability is based on these 3 principles; ... maintenance, maintenance, and maintenance.
Uh...Maintaining a POS is still a POS. Fact-o-life. Sometimes you have to overcome the problems with new and different origin parts to get the job done. Hello, Aftermarket?
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