This happens when the repair rate and the associated costs increase significantly.

Beyond getting the facts straight, good journalism is not as easy to define as a car's accident or repair rate.

Maintainability estimates (Repair rates) are also generally more accurate.

Conrad notes that the body may start operating at a chronically higher repair rate, to keep the cellular damage level in a normal range.

Its Neptune model, engineered and made in the United States, suffered from a high repair rate.

The damage estimate is calculated at retail repair rates, which may be more than the cost of wholesale repair.

The site collects and utilizes 'real-world' repair rates from regular survey data supplied by its user base.

I'm curious what the repair rate of smartphones are - as in beyond broken glass/LCD.

Those differences help answer an economic puzzle: if bias is a product flaw, why does it not behave like auto repair rates, declining under competitive pressure?

Early data on rear-projection television sets sold in 2005 and 2006 showed that 10 percent needed repairs (about three times the repair rate of picture tube and flat panel sets).

Lughezzani G, Sun M, Perrotte P, et al.: Comparative study of inguinal hernia repair rates after radical prostatectomy or external beam radiotherapy.

If the renter is liable, companies must give estimates based on "crash books," which give repair rates used by most shops, and any discounts the company gets must be passed along to the customer.

Bill Boehly, the associate administrator for safety assurance at the agency, said he had no target in mind, but that an adequate repair rate for the recall of a 1994 model would be 65 percent.

This is in contrast to the mean time to failure (MTTF), which measures average time to failures with the modeling assumption that the failed system is not repaired (infinite repair rate).

But some cardiac surgeons argue that unless performed by the most experienced cardiac centers, minimally invasive surgery can involve a longer time on a bypass machine, a lower repair rate, and higher (although still low) risk of stroke.