Make a fridge or a washer, …that lasts a decade without paying for repairs to impress me.
They exist, but they’re brands you’ve possibly never heard of and are typically sold as “Commercial grade” appliances. They are significantly more expensive, look much more plain/utilitarian and usually far fewer features. If thats what you’re looking for you can buy them, just be prepared to pay 5 to 10 times more than your normal big box store choices.
or a car that lasts a decade without paying for repairs to impress me.
There are cars available that are more reliable today than any other time in history. There was a time just a few decades ago when having 100,000 miles on the car would mean its time for the scrappers. Now those same mileage cars are still selling for 5 figures.
Yeah, part of the reason cars back then were so serviceable was because they broke down all the time. A modern car with regular servicing can last very long mechanically. The amount of electronic creature comforts, safety devices etc. are often what drives up repair costs and lead to some cars becoming uneconomical to repair. Cracked windshield? That’ll be 1000 bucks because the rain sensor for your automatic wipers will have to be recalibrated. Dead headlight? $2000 because we can’t replace individual LEDs, have to take the front of the car of to replace the whole headlight assembly and calibrate the adaptive front lighting system so that it follows road curvature again.
They exist, but they’re brands you’ve possibly never heard of and are typically sold as “Commercial grade” appliances. They are significantly more expensive, look much more plain/utilitarian and usually far fewer features. If thats what you’re looking for you can buy them, just be prepared to pay 5 to 10 times more than your normal big box store choices.
There are cars available that are more reliable today than any other time in history. There was a time just a few decades ago when having 100,000 miles on the car would mean its time for the scrappers. Now those same mileage cars are still selling for 5 figures.
Yeah, part of the reason cars back then were so serviceable was because they broke down all the time. A modern car with regular servicing can last very long mechanically. The amount of electronic creature comforts, safety devices etc. are often what drives up repair costs and lead to some cars becoming uneconomical to repair. Cracked windshield? That’ll be 1000 bucks because the rain sensor for your automatic wipers will have to be recalibrated. Dead headlight? $2000 because we can’t replace individual LEDs, have to take the front of the car of to replace the whole headlight assembly and calibrate the adaptive front lighting system so that it follows road curvature again.
Which leads to insurance companies writing off vehicles long before their time due to cost alone, and vehicles still only last 100k miles.
Yeah, they’re more reliable than ever, but we’re still scrapping them after the same amount of use due to cost alone.
I’m so bitter about my last car. It probably had 200k left in it but the cunts were too cheap to fix it so in scrap it goes! Economy of waste.