New Vehicles Are So Expensive and People Are Sick of It
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- Опубликовано: 3 фев 2024
- I'm about to start a new series and I wanted to get this video out of the way first, so people don't start telling me about their 2020 whatever with 45k miles on it, and how incredibly reliable it is. It better be reliable. It cost a small fortune and it has 45k on it.
The maintenance costs for new vehicles are also out of control. It's $100 for an oil change. Brake jobs are $200-$300 PER wheel. People are getting totally sick of it. The issue is it's impossible to fix these new cars. They're just too complicated. So they have you over a barrel. I'm tired of this garbage. 
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It's a perfect storm of: engineers wanted to keep their jobs, so they make unnecessary changes, supply chain, increased tariffs, planned obsolescence, dealers price gouging, mechanics price gouging for bad work, warranty repairs being priced in the car, and insurance increases because labor lack of parts so it cheaper to junk the vehicle. My friend bought a car not that long ago and she had to pay a $300 fee to share the cost of stolen vehicles. The dealer said they have a couple cars stolen every month.
I can do everything in half time of book hours; Alldata is literally a scam. At $190/hour shops charge way too much with book hours for a poor job. I had to redo a mechanics work because my car was squeaking like mad and it's not the only instance. This was before I stared doing my own maintenance and realized working on my car is pretty easy. After some inspection, it was the AC pulley and realized it was crooked on its axle by looking at the belt wear. It had to do with the mount, which wasn't put on right. I also noticed nothing was torqued close to spec, everything was way over torqued. I don't really trust the dealer mechanics either. So if I bought a new vehicle, I would skip the extended warranty, because I know I would do a better job than the dealer.
I would get a pre timing chain, because from my experience with mountain biking, chains stretch quite easy even without the heat from the engine. Once they are stretched it will ruin the gears; then start skipping. A new chain will just exacerbate the skipping, and all the gears need to be replaced. The logic is that metal is better than nylon, but for the application I would disagree. Also the service intervals are minutely longer but 10x the repair time.
Great rant. Cant agree more about people saying their 50,000 mile vehicles are reliable. How about my 2008 4X4 Crew Cab long bed Nissan Frontier with 416,000 miles on it before it finally developed a head gasket issue on a super hot day due to my poor maintenance of letting the coolant get to low due to a small coolant leak. Original engine and transmission but I did have to put a rear diff in it at 350,000 since I never serviced the rear end and towed a heavy cargo trailer quite often as well as drove through water crossings tire deep often as well. A reliable vehicle is one you can drive daily for 300,000 plus miles with mediocre maintinence like oil changes, suspension drivetrain, and brakes. How many new cars can do that I wonder. Like you said there are quite a few examples of late 1990s to early 2000s vehicles that can do that.
You know something, my cousin had a frontier too and drove it forever. I need to look into those trucks more. Thanks 👍
Hi Nick, I have driven many American made cars to 250k to 330k. Original motors and transmissions. Most of these vehicles were just a step or two from basic vehicles. I don’t trust any of them today. Way to many bells and whistles. Electrical issues out of the whazzoo. My current personal vehicle is a 2003 hd pickup with 180k. Just put $8000 into it because even buying a used pickup was not cost effective.
You can thank Fiat for the Jeep issues in my opinion.
Bought my 05 ram 3500 new with 5.9 diesel for 36k. I won't get rid of it. I know with 108000 miles on it, it will outlast any new diesel.
Nick, I’m glad your back. Please more ram videos. I have a 2022 Ram 2500 and am planning on some simple upgrades.
Cars need to go the way of the calculator, it is time for them to make them cheaply. I still just will buy used vehicles that are cheap because I don't want to waste money paying insurance beyond Liability.
I never do much to my cars . Just maintain the hell out of em .
Smart man 👍
The new tacomas are ridiculous
Ended up dropping my ‘21 Tradesman Power Wagon in favor of a ‘99 7.3 F250 for the very reasons you’ve laid out. The Ram didn’t give me any real problems, and the truck was pretty bare-bones in terms of modern tech, but I knew the repair cost would be astronomical WHEN something went bad.
So now Im being somewhat nickel-and-dimed with replacing older components, but if something goes bad it’ll be far more manageable. Plus, it isn’t without some irony that it’s easier to get parts for a 25 year-old truck than the modern cars. 😂
I agree you
My 2023 Gladiator with 4,700 miles had the rear brake caliper bolt fall out while towing a trailer 🤦🏼♂️😱👎
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How much do government regulations account for the cost?
I’m going to look into this. Thanks