Actually a lot of cars are built to run for 500k now. The problem is that normal maintenance and repair to achieve it has gone through the roof. Its not a 150 dollar job to replace an alternator anymore. Its 800. Its a thousand dollars for a set of tires. Its 1500 bucks to replace suspension arms. The cost of maintenance if you pay someone else is astronomical and no one does their own work anymore.
We used to repair our own shit. Now we dont, and because we dont the car companies dont take self repair into account when designing these cars, making it even harder to repair, driving the cost of professional repair even higher and the likelihood of self repair even lower.
Part of the problem too is that it's nearly impossible to self repair now because so many cars are built on utilizing proprietary software built into the car's actual operation.
I'm usually not one to gripe about analog vs digital solutions, but in this case it really is rather retarded and insane.
Guess she doesn't remember cash for clunkers.
Or how nearly every car is built to collapse at 100k miles. These arent the builds from the 70s-90s
Actually a lot of cars are built to run for 500k now. The problem is that normal maintenance and repair to achieve it has gone through the roof. Its not a 150 dollar job to replace an alternator anymore. Its 800. Its a thousand dollars for a set of tires. Its 1500 bucks to replace suspension arms. The cost of maintenance if you pay someone else is astronomical and no one does their own work anymore.
We used to repair our own shit. Now we dont, and because we dont the car companies dont take self repair into account when designing these cars, making it even harder to repair, driving the cost of professional repair even higher and the likelihood of self repair even lower.
Part of the problem too is that it's nearly impossible to self repair now because so many cars are built on utilizing proprietary software built into the car's actual operation.
I'm usually not one to gripe about analog vs digital solutions, but in this case it really is rather retarded and insane.
Yes new new cars are definitely getting restrictive af