this post was submitted on 06 Oct 2023
148 points (94.0% liked)
Technology
60115 readers
2710 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related content.
- Be excellent to each another!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
They want to make everything impossible to fix. They want to turn our land into landfills and fleece us of our income.
Climate change or no, electric fan or no, anyone with self respect would rather buy a 1990 beater than a new car, they're user and owner hostile.
I’d rather get in an accident with a modern car over a ‘90’s beater any day.
That's what 2000s cars are for! Anything like.. mid 90s and beyond is guaranteed airbags, and they mandated tire pressure sensors in what, 2008?
100% this. I don't like supporting big oil, but at the end of the day I value the ability to repair a vehicle at an affordable cost.
Things like a 20k battery replacement? Hell no thank you, I'll grab another aspirated one with 100000 on the clock, and many more to go.
13K ish for a model 3/Y. The X and S, that cost north of 80K after options, are in the 20K range for battery replacement.
That said, the batteries have an 8 year /150Kish mile warranty that kicks in at 70% capacity retention. So even if it's functional but losing enough capacity, they'll replace it