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.
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.
I think the order is the other way around. To increase the profits from people bringing their cars back to the dealership to be worked on, they've been making them harder to work on for a while now.
I dont think its intentional in thay regard. I think its organic from the engineers perspective. They dont think of people fixing their own shit because no one does and that means they dont.
Car companies dont make more money from dealerships or mechanics. They dont care about that. They only care about making the best car to last until the warranty expires.
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.
I think the order is the other way around. To increase the profits from people bringing their cars back to the dealership to be worked on, they've been making them harder to work on for a while now.
I dont think its intentional in thay regard. I think its organic from the engineers perspective. They dont think of people fixing their own shit because no one does and that means they dont.
Car companies dont make more money from dealerships or mechanics. They dont care about that. They only care about making the best car to last until the warranty expires.