On Sun, 3 May 2015 21:03:09 +1000, Simon Brown wrote:

When this comes to an end, the owner won't want to pay for
servicing/maintenance etc, even if those costs are less overall
than
the previous deal costs. So they will trade it in and get another,
the manufacturers want this as it's another sale. The harder they
can
make the servicing/maintenance the better as far as they are
concerned.

And yet cars last much longer than they used to in say the 50s.

They do indeed, a 5 year old car right up to the 70's maybe 80's
stood a fair chance of starting to turn into lace curtain.

The fact that cars with another 150,000 miles/10 years of life
left in
them are going to the crusher doesn't bother the manufactures,
they
just want to sell cars.

Doesn't matter what they want, cars last much longer anyway.

They may last much longer if they are serviced/maintained than they
did 30/40 years ago. But cars were far easier to service and maintain
back then being pure mechanical devices with no electronics or
computers.

These days, you can change the fluids and filters, brakes, tyres etc
but that's about all. If it ain't "running right" you're are stuffed
without the abilty to plugin a diagnostic device to get the fault
codes or watch what it's up to whilst running. The basic codes are
standard but most vehicles have a number of propritary codes that
need to be interpreted, you either have to do that manually or pay
for an "update" to your disgnostic device.

It's now relatively expensive and complicated to be able to diagnose
even a simple engine or even transmission faults. That's assuming the
owners have even an inkling about how a car works let alone any
desire to service/maintain it themselves. So we get back to what I
said:

"When this [the all in purchase/servicing deal] comes to an end, the
owner won't want to pay for servicing/maintenance etc, even if those
costs are less overall than the previous deal costs. So they will
trade it in and get another, ...".

The makers even tie down the very expensive diagnostic machines that
garages have to have to work on the cars. The owner of the
independant garage I use was almost up a gum tree the last time I
went in as the local(*) internet was down so the diagnostic machine
couldn't "phone home" to get authorised, something it has to do every
day.

(*) "Local" as in from west Newcastle to Haydon Bridge and south to
Alston, only about 400 sq miles.

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Cheers
Dave.