Popgadget, if only they built everything to last as long as your antique slide hammer nail puller. That should be the ultimate energy/resources world saving environmental practice.
NO MORE PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE.
Fleet mileage mandates are making vehicles have shorter lifespans, or lifespans with more expensive complications. Especially for gasoline engines.
Here's a few symptoms:
1) Auto Stop, when your engine purposely dies at a red light. Wears out your starter, and your battery gets drained. Efficiency loss reality blows this theory out of the water. The motor has to work harder once you take off to recharge the depleted battery.
2) Low friction piston rings, lose their tight seal, and now engines start burning oil sooner than they should. Also loss of compression kills any mileage that might have been saved in the infancy of the motor. Your O2 sensors get ruined, and your catalytic converters get ruined....Last I heard, burning oil getting into the air is pollution. Things that make you go Hummm....
3) displacement on demand, Active fuel management, ruins V8 engines much sooner than they would have normally lasted.
There are more, but these should give one a grasp of what's going on.
So at the end of the day, vehicles not lasting as long is not a good thing and the environmentalists might have thought they were passing good laws, but now smart people know that what may have seemed a good thing, has turned out not to be so.....and don't get me started on subsidized EV....
With modern oils, and manufacturing being able to hold great quality tolerances, car engines should last 300,000+ miles easily without major problems, but the compromises for squeezing out a few pennies of mileage have gotten us to where we are.
Of course no mention of the long term downside of all this pie in the sky crap for brains thought processes. Read between the lines, this is why automakers are all creating EV vehicles....to "subsidize" the fossil fuel vehicles. Reality is, more vehicles sooner in the scrap heap.
We need some realists on the boards.
Have many great new high tech ideas helped with performance? Heck yah! But some have not been such great ideas.....You have to try to "think around the bend".
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