• grue@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    When this thing finally dies…

    …you swap a replacement engine into it and keep going anyway.

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      1 year ago

      I discovered this hack and I’m never buying a new vehicle ever again. I have a 25 yr old truck and a car nearly as old. On the car I’ve long since ditched the old head units to get bluetooth and Android Auto, cleaned up the minor surface rust on the frame and got a protective coating sprayed on, had the seats reupholstered, and upgraded brakes and suspension.

      All that cost me less than a new car including the cost of the car and I didn’t have to either pay a massive lump sum all at once or go into debt to buy it.

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        1 year ago

        I drive similarly old vehicles (my oldest is 33; my newest is 18). The other reasons for it are:

        • I avoid the exploitative misfeatures of new cars, such as privacy-violating “telemetry” and property-rights-violating “subscription features”

        • I get features that are hard or even impossible to find these days, such as manual transmissions even on my SUV and pickup truck.

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      1 year ago

      my main concern is frame rust - it doesn’t get many miles, but it does live outside. I should probably build a carport for it.