The error was to buy a second one after "the first one was just poor manufacturing".
I never saw manufacturing quality improve over time from car companies.
After my Nissan car started to have transmission problems that would cost thousands of dollars to fix (among various other small issues), I sold it as quickly as possibly and swore I'll touch the make again.
Subaru burned me on this. I bought my wife an outback. It started to have transmission issues with a full transmission failure at about 145k miles. This is after a life of small problems here and there that didn't really impact performance.
It was a known issue between 125 and 150k miles. Subaru's solution was to extend the warranty to 100k, as if that did anything at all.
We got rid of the broken one, and the one that I drove as well. I'll never go back. I loved those cars, but that's so shady.
