Why are cars and motorcycles a crap today?

[StyleCoin]

Before a car engine lasted much more, nowadays a shit.

 

[serpentwalker666]

Before a car engine lasted much more, nowadays a shit.

This is called planned obsolescence and is unfortunately how many things are manufactured nowadays.

You want to do some research and buy vehicles and important things that are of good quality or are rather serviceable. I will give you an example:

You could save up the money and purchase a used, older vehicle with a good frame, decent overall condition of the engine, transmission, rotors, exhaust and not too many miles, and replace some of the parts to get it in very reliable condition, this would negate the expense of a car payment for a newer vehicle thats going to break and require a lot of money for repairs.

This varies and there is still decent modern vehicles, but this is one strategy you can learn and this is what I personally have done.

I am in the process of teaching myself vehicle mechanics, and learning this more in depth but it will take some time.

If you are more aligned with this as a soul path it would be even easier and this strategy would be even better and applicable.

Another thing is if you get good enough, you can buy up new vehicles that were in an accident and repaired for a fraction of the price they would cost new.

This has to be done VERY CAREFULLY though and you must t know what you are doing, which will require some learning and knowledge of vehicles.

 

[Henu the Great]

Planned obsolescence (not only engines) for the most part, but quality products exist these days as well.

 

[Epiphany]

Before a car engine lasted much more, nowadays a shit.

Greed and regulations. EPA/environmental regulations require alot more parts which means more points of failure and demands that engines be designed in a way that makes them run with less emissions but also less reliably, because they shit where they eat(exhaust gas recirculation).

People also don't take care of things like they used to.

 

[Epiphany]

Engine blocks are also made out of aluminum to save weight and manufacturing costs which is less strong than cast iron and less resistant to the cycles of heating and cooling.

 

[V12-POWER]

it comes down to crappy and cheap electronic systems, manufacturers seeking increasing profits every year, retarded regulations which make no sense, plus the constant EV shoving down everyone’s throat.

Half the blame is the emissions regulations which force manufacturers to create useless crap like EGR for diesels, AdBlue injection, etc. We pay for this with higher fuel consumptions.

The other half of the problem are manufacturers themselves.

People like to hate on electronics, but in reality it’s the fact that one needs a 3000 dollar scanner, and specific plugs for obd2, which vary brand to brand. Some like Caterpillar won’t even sell you the diagnostic tool neither the software. You have to buy it off some Russian website.

With one extra redundant system for the vital sensors of the ECU/ECM, and easy accesible ways to actually do it, nobody would blame electronics.

If the manufacturers weren’t such greedy fucks, one would just make it so any pc or even cellphone could connect via usb and check faults, etc.

Then on top of this, big, big issue with modern cars/trucks/machines, you have planned obsolence. Most manufacturers make more money selling spare parts than the vehicle itself. John Deere for example…

Some serious criminals like Ford however, deliberately design their engines to fail. The wet belt “ecoboom” for example. Driving the engine oil pump with a rubber belt is an atrocity in itself, but submerging it in oil is just predator behavior.

It’s the same thing in most big companies and corporations really, greed, anti-consumer practices, etc. the same thing nvidia does with gpus for example.

The shit I see in modern cars and machines that are obvious points of failure is incredible. Things that anyone with experience on the field will point and say “that’s gonna fail in X and Y ways”

That’s what I think after dealing with modern cars and machinery

 

[Hvítr Ormr]

I remember when I was studying car mechanics at college many years ago (like 20+ years) I was told that even then, car manufacturers knew full well how to make parts out of materials that would never need replacing (things like brake pads, clutch disks etc.) they just chose not to intentionally, so this isn't even a that much of a new thing. Planned obsolescence, parts that intentionally fail, you name it, it's all by design.

Vehicles and equipment are also designed more and more towards preventing owners from being make repairs or replace components themselves these days too, the recent John Deere right to repair fiasco comes to mind. It's a joke.