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It's not a coincidence - new cars have turbochargers and electronic engine control that provide huge performance/efficiency gains and necessarily are harder to
by SR2Z 2y ago
It's not a coincidence - new cars have turbochargers and electronic engine control that provide huge performance/efficiency gains and necessarily are harder to repair.
Your average shitty 4-banger from the 80s or 90s is not remotely comparable to a new engine - in almost every respect (including reliability!) the new one is better.
- NullPrefix 2y agoNew engines also have thin blocks, which cannot be honed
- Peanuts99 2y agoNew engines don't ever need to be honed. You can change the performance parameters in software easily enough.
- NullPrefix 2y agohoning is part of rebuild
- SR2Z 2y agoYes, and who exactly is going to rebuild a $2000 engine instead of buying a new one? The labor costs ALONE make that a horrible idea for anyone who isn't a mechanic already - and if an engine lasts ten years the depreciation on the car is intense enough that it doesn't matter.
- NullPrefix 2y agoI doubt you could buy a new engine for $2k. And this whole thing that you are arguing for, it's called throwaway products
- marcus0x62 2y agoTurbochargers date back to the 1920s, and I'd rather troubleshoot a modern EFI/GDI system than a carburetor any day of the week.
- SR2Z 2y agoSure they're old, but my understanding is that outside of diesels and aircraft they were too fiddly and unreliable to put in common use.