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Marcio > wrote
> wrote >> I think most folks over in the auto groups would agree with >> me that, if you religiously follow the manufacturer's stated >> maintenance timetables, you will never have a "breakdown". > Only people who know nothing about auto maintenance would agree with that. Indeed. > Any piece of machinery will eventually break > down, regardless of how it is maintained. That may be way outside normal use tho some of them. > That's because any part manufactured is designed > for a certain life time of use and will fail sooner or later. Wrong. Some machinery isnt designed for a certain life time of use at all. One obvious example is simple stationary diesel engines. > And a car manufacturer's stated maintenance timetables do not > address replacement of most parts that can fail in a car. Show > me an auto manufacturer's stated maintenance timetables for alternators, > ignition switches, coil packs, ECUs, fuel pumps, water pumps... Correct. And its never going to be possible to eliminate early failures with those components by replacement even if they did. > Most if not all manufacturer's maintenance timetables do not > even have a timetable for thermostat replacement--a part that > fails quite often in most cars (but fortunately usually fails opened). He can claim that that isnt the sort of breakdown that needs towing tho. |
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