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| james_s:
--- Quote from: SilverSolder on March 24, 2021, 08:42:05 pm ---Porsches probably get taken care of, and fixed, almost no matter what condition! - e.g. compared to an old Toyota taxi... --- End quote --- Yeah how often do you see people driving around in a 20 year old beater Porsche or Ferrari or something? I don't think I ever have. Some cars are just classics right from the start, people who buy them treat them like an investment and take good care of them. Similar is true of airplanes, go visit a small airport and look at the various Cessnas and Pipers and stuff, most people would be hard pressed to tell whether a particular plane is a 1963 model or a 2003 model, they don't restyle them every year to keep up with the fashion trends and airplanes are very expensive so people take care of them. There are also airworthiness regulations that prevent a plane from continuing to fly if it falls into disrepair. Almost any car can be made to last a long time if you take care of it. I've never owned a car with less than 100k on it, the last one I got rid of had 330k when it was totaled, the replacement currently has 267k and still going strong. Whenever anything breaks I fix it, money spent on repairs is negligible compared to what payments would be on even a cheap new car. It's all in the attitude, I don't understand the mentality of not wanting to spend more fixing a car than it's worth, most cars are not investments, you always spend more than they're worth, whether on depreciation or on repairs. |
| SilverSolder:
--- Quote from: james_s on March 25, 2021, 12:07:20 am --- --- Quote from: SilverSolder on March 24, 2021, 08:42:05 pm ---Porsches probably get taken care of, and fixed, almost no matter what condition! - e.g. compared to an old Toyota taxi... --- End quote --- Yeah how often do you see people driving around in a 20 year old beater Porsche or Ferrari or something? I don't think I ever have. Some cars are just classics right from the start, people who buy them treat them like an investment and take good care of them. Similar is true of airplanes, go visit a small airport and look at the various Cessnas and Pipers and stuff, most people would be hard pressed to tell whether a particular plane is a 1963 model or a 2003 model, they don't restyle them every year to keep up with the fashion trends and airplanes are very expensive so people take care of them. There are also airworthiness regulations that prevent a plane from continuing to fly if it falls into disrepair. Almost any car can be made to last a long time if you take care of it. I've never owned a car with less than 100k on it, the last one I got rid of had 330k when it was totaled, the replacement currently has 267k and still going strong. Whenever anything breaks I fix it, money spent on repairs is negligible compared to what payments would be on even a cheap new car. It's all in the attitude, I don't understand the mentality of not wanting to spend more fixing a car than it's worth, most cars are not investments, you always spend more than they're worth, whether on depreciation or on repairs. --- End quote --- Totally agree, my oldest car turns 30 this year (I've owned it for 20), a little Miata MX5 that has cost almost nothing to own - I treated it to new shocks, mounts, and suspension bushings all round last year, it drives like a dream. The funny thing is how much the youngsters seem to like it - if I go to Autozone for something, I'm barely allowed to leave again, they all seem to want to talk! |
| coppercone2:
the problem is that some features are really good, particularly rearview camera, but it can be retrofitted. IMO that one eventually going to save you money when you are off your game, its almost idiot proof so long you clean it in the winter |
| mnementh:
--- Quote from: james_s on March 24, 2021, 04:27:36 am --- --- Quote from: mnementh on March 24, 2021, 03:45:47 am ---Mill the part smooth then laser-etch a in-house stock number which is "accidentally" similar to a completely unrelated part in a similar package. >:D --- End quote --- Some early arcade games from the pre-microprocessor era did that. I saw a board that had a standard 74xx number on a part that was obviously a bipolar PROM. Just looking at the schematic you could see it was clearly the sprite ROM. --- End quote --- Yebbutt by the time you have a schizz-matic you've already done 90% of the reverse-enginerding-ery, or have stolen IP which is the equivalent. ;) mnem :popcorn: |
| mnementh:
--- Quote from: Simon on March 24, 2021, 07:51:29 am --- --- Quote from: mnementh on March 24, 2021, 03:45:47 am --- You know, like some devices I've seen that "accidentally" have a positive DC rail on a black wire, just for grins. ;) https://youtu.be/CSvf6FsSnjg --- End quote --- You mean like the entire German automotive standard wire colour coding? Black is positive, Brown is Negative - just for kicks, luckily wost stuff is reverse polarity protected. --- End quote --- Gewd laird... some people just effin' hate the color-blind, don't they...? :o mnem :palm: |
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