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Originally Posted by jaffles
Yeh the notion to repair anything was lost a longtime ago, now people more than ever are cultured into out of warranty its worthless, to expansive to repair, or too complex. I was amazed last time i was down the wreckers, virtually no car was damaged. Just all abandoned trade-ins that can't be sold in povo dealerships.
Then this E93 that had brakes, guards front cowling (I bought) and bonnet gone, had the lights and doors removed then crushed. I thought wow, there is all that amazing hood mech, hydraulic pump, plastic clips, diffs etc. Seems people would rather go to work to pay off the loan than spend a bit of time learning something and fixing it for very little.
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The problem is people are still ok with living beyond their means. They'll roll negative equity into the next car loan and not skip a beat. Or they'll just lease the car. You also saw the insanity during the beer bug years where people were willing to pay mark ups (many were substantial) just to get into a car that was really a want and not a need.
Then you have the manufacturers that are feeding into this culture with loading up fancy options which inflate prices and on the flip side making it difficult for people that do want to work on their own cars (or independent repair shops) to be able to do so. Whether that be forcing people to go to the dealership where the tool to program parts are only held by them to withholding repair/technical information. I experienced this first hand with my BMW Motorrad motorcycles. I have the factory service manuals for both of my bikes. But BMW pulled all the DVDs for sale so you can't buy one anymore and then shut down the servers they put online which provided the periodic updates to the tech manuals. They're all pushing things to the "you will own nothing and be happy" model. All of this falls under The Right to Repair battles that are happening.