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In Reply to: RE: Repair costs on an old car are far cheaper than payments on a new car. posted by ghost of olddude55 on May 02, 2024 at 07:01:32
Old Click and Clack saying ...-
"Which is more? $500 a year or $5,000 a year?"
Inflation adjust those and the point is still the same.
Follow Ups:
She breaks down how much it costs to buy new cars.
I wouldn't buy a Seltos because I think SUVs are dumb as the proverbial stump, but it's in the price range where I'd be shopping:
It would cost less to have my Cobalt rebuilt from stem to stern than what I'd shell out for a Seltos, assuming I borrowed money to buy it.
The blissful counterstroke-a considerable new message.
Edits: 05/02/24
Watched her. You might pick at some of her assumptions in the calculation, but the conclusion is same. Cars are expensive ...- or certainly can be, and her then backing into the kind of income necessary to support it was good extra step to drive home the point.
Along the side of the screen was a link to a video of that guy you post who tears down engines.
Holy f'ing cow! He tore down a Viper engine that was so unbelievably full of shrapnel as to be unbelievable!
Most of the engines he tears down, straight up lack of maintenance killed them.
You want eye-popping though, check out South Main Auto Repair , or Pine Hollow Diagnostics . Some of the long videos can be tedious but at least you'll get an idea of how ridiculously complex modern cars are and why repair costs are skyrocketing.
Probably 70% of the complexity is unnecessary. Government didn't mandate it and buyers never demanded it.
My own theory is that car makers are using as a form of planned obsolescence.
The blissful counterstroke-a considerable new message.
Edits: 05/02/24
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