But don’t worry, you will be at moderate risk of the car breaking down before 10,000 miles and you can’t fix the part because it has been deliberately engineered so that mechanics can’t fix it and it has to be replaced.
https://xcancel.com/unusual_whales/status/1987985187918192870
Cars can easily hold up 15 years of regular use if maintained properly.
…which costs a lot of money and free time.
The biggest problem is 1) owning a car doesn’t mean you know what necessary maintenance even needs done to begin with and 2) almost everybody working paycheck to paycheck means nobody has money or energy to fix shit NOW so small problems get left until theres nothing but big gaping problems you still can’t afford to fix
My fucking car has been sitting in the driveway since March because my registration expired and to renew it I needed an inspection done but I can’t get an inspection done because “something chewed through the harness” holding my O2 sensor onto my engine or whatever and since the mechanic I usually use said I “had to take it to a dealership because they have the tools needed” I basically was like “well that’s never getting done since that sounds expensive”
I could maybe still pay my registration if they’d let me switch it to the new county i live in because they don’t require an emissions inspection but like, I still don’t have money. And the battery is dead and who knows what else is wrong with it after 6+ months sitting in the driveway
yeah I mean if you’re a mechanic then, sure enough you can actually do that but talking commuter vehicles absolutely not. It’s not “easily” for most people, it’s a huge chunk of your livelihood trying to keep up on these shitboxes if you’re barely keeping ends meet lmao
the question rent or car (also food but food is dramatically cheaper day to day) is a question that comes up constantly in the states when you’re on the low end