Why do the new cars break down more often than they did back in the old days?
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toldanothertale asked:
Why is it that the new cars break down more often than they did back in the old days? Hearing about the reliability of the new cars makes me afraid of even buying a new car, I personally would rather buy an older car with low miles than I would buying a new car anyday cause the reliability seems to hold up better.
MELVA
Why is it that the new cars break down more often than they did back in the old days? Hearing about the reliability of the new cars makes me afraid of even buying a new car, I personally would rather buy an older car with low miles than I would buying a new car anyday cause the reliability seems to hold up better.
MELVA
June 17th, 2004 at 2:12 pm
they don’t break down like the old ones did.. they just suffer more glitches because of all the government mandated sensors and computer systems. They rarely throw a rod or warp heads like the old cars.
June 17th, 2004 at 2:50 pm
yep they didnt do them any good at all id take a 20 yrs old car over any new one has for outlasting and cheaper to work on.. back in th eday most used cars that had 200,000 was just a ok car some with 400,000 was running great now your lucky to get half of it before problem start my last one car had 480,000 when i sold it it woul dstill smoke a tire if it wanted it too.. cant say that about my dodge van or my ford car i have now or even my truck
June 18th, 2004 at 10:15 pm
Apparently, you don’t remember the old days.
Before electronic ignition and fuel injection, the old cars were very hard to start, especially when the weather was below freezing. Once you got them started, you didn’t even think about driving them until they were at least partially warmed up or they would stall at the first intersection.
When was the last time you flooded an engine? If you didn’t start the old cars just right, they would flood. You either had to wait or remove and dry the spark plugs.
When was the last time you saw a set of burned pionts or a blown condencer? These would leave you with no spark and dead on the side of the road.
How often do the new cars quit in the rain. With the old cars, if you got water inside the distributor cap, you were going nowhere. Water could also splash onto the ignition coil and cause it to *****. Again, you were going nowhere.
I remember when 70,000 miles was a lot and you were thinking of junking it. After 60,000 miles it was nothing for the engine to require a quart of oil at each gas fillup. Remember the old cars that would belch the blue smoke out the back when going down the road? 100,000 miles was a big event that few cars saw. Now it is nothing to get twice this many miles from a car.
I remember when a car in the north had large rust holes after only 4 or 5 years. After 5 years it wasn’t uncommon to see the pavement when you looked at the floorboards and if you drove it in the rain you were going to get wet.
Do you remember the noise the old cars made? The rain gutters and vent windows caused a lot of wind noise.
As for routine maintenance. Tune ups were required every 10,000 miles. Tires would last 20,000 miles if you were lucky. Front end bushings were shot in about 50,000 miles. Shocks lasted about 25,000 miles.
Remember the old manual hydraulic brakes? The ones that made you feel like using both feet if you needed to stop fast. And each time you hit the brakes, you never really knew to which side it would pull because those automatic adjusters never worked right.
Did you ever see how the old cars were built? Because of the poor tolerances, nothing fit right and the workers frequently had to beat parts into place with a hammer.
Yup, they don’t build them like they used to.
But I still love my old cars.
I own a chopped 50 Merc, a 61 Olds convertible, and a 62 Vette.
June 21st, 2004 at 11:29 am
QA in the manufacturing and design process has been pretty lax with modern manufacturing in many areas. The US automotive industry went way to far in relaxing standards and they have been paying the price for a long time. General Motors is about the worst overall especially the Saturn line.
The first answer is partially correct as well. The more complex you make a product, the more difficult it is to ensure that every stage of the manufacturing process is up to standards.
June 24th, 2004 at 3:48 pm
right now its the second part of auto bussines for the auto company you pay for your car on time for repiar it and changing parts of your car maney times to auto company,
June 28th, 2004 at 1:45 am
because these cars today have too much junk on them to go wrong. back them days they were plain janes. i think the best cars are in the junkyards.myself, i would rather have a older car.