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Obviously this was done as a fun exercise, rather than as a practical reference. Other important factors: 1. Does your area have significant road salt? This br
by QuarterReptile 4y ago
Obviously this was done as a fun exercise, rather than as a practical reference. Other important factors:
1. Does your area have significant road salt? This brings your frame's lifetime way down.
2. What are the consequences of your car being in the shop, cost- and convenience-wise?
3. Going along with (2), how quickly do you need to fix your AC if it dies?
4. For lower volume cars, does your area have a good mechanic that likes to work on your car and has parts (90s Saabs and their Saab graveyards come to mind.)
5. Some cars are designed with a pile of ridiculous features because their owners' blindspot for anything past a 3 year ownership length. My limited awareness suggests that this is common in the 50k+ range of SUVs.
6. Do you know the seller? You should be willing to pay up and make compromises for a car from someone you know and believe to be a conscientious owner.
- mertd 4y ago7. 14 year old cars have the standard safety features of 14 years ago. That means almost surely no emergency braking, blindside warning or backup cameras.
- j45 4y agoNot quite. My 2009s had 2 of those 3 if not all. Don’t be so sure. 2009 Lexus, Nissan, Infiniti, BMW for sure and others might surprise you. Cars in Japan often had all those features in the mid 2000s and slowly exported
- QuarterReptile 4y agoI felt like this was already discussed elsewhere in the comments, so I didn't revisit it, but now I will point out a few things. Backup cameras were far less necessary because the introduction of these cameras enabled the drastic reduction in rear visibility that now necessitates the cameras. Blindside warning pales in comparison to well-integrated convex mirrors on both sides. The 2012-2014 Ford Focus executed this concept superbly, but I don't know of any other vehicles that have it. As a grumbling aside, backup cameras are really about the safety of those outside the car, and I deduce from the popularity of SUVs and trucks that such a consideration carries almost no weight when buying a car.
- mertd 4y agoI don't know why convex mirrors aren't common. There must be a well researched reason like them leading to bad judgement of relative speed or messing up with spatial awareness of the driver. Hard disagree about backup cams. I can't think of a single new or old car that would be objectively better off without a backup camera. No amount of rear glass will make you see a cat or a dog that's standing right behind the trunk.
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- tessierashpool 4y agolikewise, if you buy a car that was made before it become standard to overload cars with bad computers, you get a car that is not overloaded with bad computers. no computers is definitely better than bad computers.