6sally6 wrote:
TKOPerformance wrote:
DC wrote:
I wouldn't worry about electrical problems because none of the automakers do. I have had a couple of battery deaths on newer vehicles that taught me to always carry a spare remote battery and the emergency key. So as long as you have those I am sure you can figure out how to release the emergency brake with the wire cutters on your key chain.
Its another way they make cars and trucks throw aways. The electrical stuff last long enough to get out of warranty and then about year 10-15 starts to fail. Few guys are any good at diagnosing it, and it changes so fast that by the time you have one model figured out there's a new one with different problems. So eventually you can't get through inspection because the SES light's on, and then the vehicle is junk. The thing I don't understand is that money is made from selling parts; not cars. You'd think they'd be smart enough to sell vehicles that could be kept on the road indefinitely so long as you just keep buying parts every year.
NEVER HAPPEN!!........Don't believe me??.....Count all the different sizes of oil filters and air filters!! Each has ONE purpose "to FILTER"!! Does every car maker REALLY need a different size filter.
Nothing is standardized. They make it as hard as possible to maintain your own car.
They ain't gonna let-us-off to just buy repair parts and keep the same car!!!
Make too much sense
6s6
Makers like Mercedes, BMW, and Volvo used to build cars like that. Look at how many of those cars from the '80s and '90s are still on the road. The only reason they ever died was that once the value of the car hits a nadir the cost to have them professionally maintained is out of the ballpark for people that want to own them. The parts still exist, and often aren't as expensive as you'd think, but if you had to pay for labor at $150/hr. that's where the money lies. I've seen several examples with gas engines go 250k miles or more, and Diesels can top a million miles. I also don't know exactly what they did for rust protection, but these cars seem to never rust, even being driven in winter on salty roads and not washed right afterward. There was definitely a time where these marques were worth the money. Today, ironically, they have some of the highest incidence of repair under factory warranty. The Germans and Swedes got greedy and started building cars cheaper (that Mercedes/Chrysler fiasco I'm sure didn't help either). Then there's all the damn technology crammed into them that require a degree in electrical engineering to understand, let alone troubleshoot. As the saying goes the excrement has made contact with the rotary wind generator.
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