Yes of course most old cars are serviceable. I'm talking about things like not being able to close your door shut properly because the dimensions are slightly o

Yes of course most old cars are serviceable. I'm talking about things like not being able to close your door shut properly because the dimensions are slightly off. The quality control was non-existent because the plan took absolute priority and everything else was non-essential to the point the factory could spew the product with half of the parts missing, and ignore the angry consumers who got duped because they weren't affected by consumer feedback in any way. I actually lived in a planned economy country and I know the bullshit you had to put up with. If you compare apples to apples, i.e. cars made in Eastern Bloc/USSR and the rest of the world of the same era, the typical experience of a car owner in communist countries was exactly like in Cuba - you were expected to constantly fix the half-assed crap you bought because it's literally falling apart. The fall of the wall and the Union led to the instant increase in the quality even during the turmoil of the economic transition. That was long before the prevalence of smart everything, planned obsolescence, "enshittification" etc.