Comment on Are Cars Just Becoming Giant Smartphones on Wheels?

• grue@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Why are you lying?

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  • IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I guess you have never dealt with the bullshit hassle of a 23 year old car…

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    • grue@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I own six 20+ year old cars. Don’t talk shit about stuff you have no clue about.

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    • CodeInvasion@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Old cars are work for sure, but if you are willing to learn it’s not bad.

      I have a 2007 Mustang. I’ve replaced the entire front suspension, rear differential, and paid an upholsterer to replace the convertible top. I upgraded the radio and put in a 10inch touch screen with Wireless carplay and integrated backup camera. Next up is dropping the trans to replace the clutch plates, throw-out bearing, resurface the flywheel, and replace the rear main seal on the engine while I’m down there because the flywheel is rusty accumulates a thin layer every morning that makes a grinding noise for 30 seconds until it grinds off.

      It definitely doesn’t just work like a new car, but since I do the work myself it also doesn’t cost me much.

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      • IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Sounds like a pretty good project car it sounds to me like that is your hobby.

        I bet you have a very well provisioned toolset and a pretty sweet garage and don’t even think about the time you spend on that thing.

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      • bluGill@fedia.io ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I have a todo list that will keep me busy for then next 3000 years, and that is before rebuilding the transmission on my 1999 is added to the list. (note that I assume the medical advances needed for me to live 3000 years are on someone else's list as I have no clue...) Eventually I have to give up on something so I can do something else.

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• sefra1@lemmy.zip ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So you will if you pay a loan for a new car…

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• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Honda Accords from that era are remarkably reliable, and can last for upwards of 250k miles

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