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A car can be maintained well as long as parts for it are available. That people don't want to spend on maintenance of >10 yo cars is a different issue.
by kozak 7y ago
A car can be maintained well as long as parts for it are available. That people don't want to spend on maintenance of >10 yo cars is a different issue.
- saalweachter 7y ago... if you live somewhere they don't salt the roads.
- gambiting 7y agoI mean.....in Poland the average age of a car is 14 years, and we have very harsh winters with plenty of salt being used. I don't think there's anything weird about driving a car that approaches 20 years old, or anything particularly tricky about maintaining one either.
- kozak 7y agoI think it depends on the quality of sheet metal. I live in a place where it's all mud and salt throughout the winter, and somehow my car doesn't rust even where the paint is scratched. I think it's because of a good-quality galvanized coating under the paint (it's a boring normal non-luxury car made in Korea, if someone's curious).
- saalweachter 7y agoThe frame is what I worry about more than the body. I'd be happy to keep repairing my ~15 year old truck, but the frame is getting to the point where I'm not sure how much longer it's going to pass inspection.
- tom_ 7y agoSome poorly-designed models are particularly prone to rusting, but most cars can put up with this for more than 10 winters without losing any structural integrity. It's true they don't look great underneath...