We all need to set aside our differences and support right to repair
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Try to keep older cars running. In another 5-10 years all the new vehicles that operate with computers and wires are going to crap out and be nightmares to trouble shoot and fix. Junk yards will be overrun with hopelessly dead used parts piles. Wires and connectors only last so long out on the road getting shaken every day...
This 👆👆👆 My dad taught me a car is simply to get you from point A to point B. Everything else is pointless (insert expensive). My jeep has 260k on her and rides cross country like a boss. I have amazing mechanics who duct tape the things they can and fix the things that need it. One day, old cars are going to be more valuable than all the bells and whistles… bc they can still be “worked on”. Then came along the climate change, inflation reduculous act. Buy an old car.
Planned obsolence is a bitch. But wires will last ages, being shaken is not a problem if properly secured and rated. Connectors with proper tolerances also will survive.
You're more likely to have a malfunction from solder cracking from extreme temperatures than just that.
I had an 03 VW that had insulation flaking off of a few wires. Loved the car for ten years until it turned into a Jeckel/Hide monster. Some mornings it would start and run like it was new. Some mornings it would start in limp mode. It kept life interesting like that in the last couple of years I had it. I also live where salt is used to melt snow/ice and destroy motor vehicles -corroded grounding points and corroded everything is exasperating.
I hadn't considered the salt aspect. We really need a better way of dealing with ice.
Ya mean like this?
Could've spent all that Ukraine money on an infrastructure project like this. Would've been cool.
Cars have been operating with computers and wires for decades without turning into a hopeless pile of parts after 5-10 years.