It's a reflection of our society. Almost every job position I've ever worked in my life had a super hero version of that role and some famous master of that craft is household name. I only seek work in fields where I can go far and our society and the free market rewards it.

Sadly, we depend heavily on people whose jobs seem very unattractive. We don't respect people whose job it is preserve the objects we adore. If we did, there would be funny arse commercials during football games for big auto-care places.

We do not value preserving things. We like new shiny things, briefly until we find a newer, fresher, shiny thing. We do respect car manufacturers, we'll even have culture wars about the brands. But we don't give a rat's arse about an ongoing, care-filled, love affair with a car.

Maybe we're not building our cars well enough for them to be worth keeping. If we started making cars capable and worth keeping for decades, then long term machine care needs would improve quality the automotive care industry. AKA: find people in the garage that can read.

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Posted by windshieldman

Member since Nov 2012

12818 posts

Posted on 5/10/20 at 4:16 pm to Woodreaux

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It's a reflection of our society. Almost every job position I've ever worked in my life had a super hero version of that role and some famous master of that craft is household name. I only seek work in fields where I can go far and our society and the free market rewards it.

Sadly, we depend heavily on people whose jobs seem very unattractive. We don't respect people whose job it is preserve the objects we adore. If we did, there would be funny arse commercials during football games for big auto-care places.

We do not value preserving things. We like new shiny things, briefly until we find a newer, fresher, shiny thing. We do respect car manufacturers, we'll even have culture wars about the brands. But we don't give a rat's arse about an ongoing, care-filled, love affair with a car.

Maybe we're not building our cars well enough for them to be worth keeping. If we started making cars capable and worth keeping for decades, then long term machine care needs would improve quality the automotive care industry. AKA: find people in the garage that can read.

I agree with everything you said except the last paragraph. IMO, cars are made better now than they use to be. I had an 89 GMC Sierra that by 2005 was on it's 2nd engine and 3rd transmission. I have a 08 Silverado that's still has original engine and transmission and is still running great. Also my 89, the paint job was worn off by 98.

I do understand there is a 4 year difference in those vehicles but after 12 years that GMC was needing to be in the junkyard, I kept it on life support. Miss the hell out of that truck. Also, it was breaking down after 150,000 miles, first trans failure was only after 130,000. My truck now has well over 200,000 and I ride it pretty damn hard (insert Beavis and Butthead laughing gif).

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Posted by notiger1997

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Member since May 2009

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Posted on 5/10/20 at 4:29 pm to Woodreaux

Ok Gramps. With a little maintenance, most of today’s cars easily get 200k miles

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