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"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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On 03/12/16 14:43, wrote:
On 3 Dec 2016 14:19:10 GMT, Huge wrote:

On 2016-12-03, DerbyBorn wrote:
On simple change that must have had a big impact on the rust-free life
of a
car must be plastic inner wing liners.
When you see what they are it really makes you wonder why it took so
long
for them to become common place.

Because car manufacturers don't want cars to last longer.

I'm glad that I have had a few decades of just driving cars that with
a bit of care and maintenance either lasted the course or you got rid
of them when it was appropriate to do so.
A youngster now by the time he reaches a fifth decade of driving may
well have a car that will be engineered to hardly rot, be self driving
when required and have all sorts of technological gadgets.
Unfortunately I can also see a position that to keep it legal to use
on the public highway the software support will have to be kept up to
date by the manufacture.
So at a whim they could suddenly make a whole load of older vehicles
obsolete .


In many ways that is the new car killer - not falling to bits or being
BER, but simply not being as fast/safe/cheap to run/conformant to new
regulations/ etc as the forecourt Queens.

I can see the current generation of cars getting prematurely scrapped
because the keyless locking system fails.

I cant.

Replacing this could be more than the value of an 8 year old car

If there is much of that, IMO someone will start refurbishing
what fails and do that on ebay so it doesnt cost much to fix.

and the utility of a car that doesn't lock is going to be low.

Sure, but it wouldnt be hard to provide a different addon
way to lock it given that the hardware is all still there.

And do better too, lock and unlock using your phone, auto
as you approach with the phone in your pocket etc.