Comments by "Johnny Blue" (@johnnyblue4799) on "Are OLD CARS more RELIABLE? Planned obsolescence and SUSTAINABILITY in the AUTO INDUSTRY" video.

That won't work for most people. It works for you because you know how to take care of the old van. But the days when people were wrenching on their own cars are over. Unfortunately.
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@paulyarlett1238 Very well said. The 'green' plagues is the gift that keeps on giving. The more we try to make the cars pollute less, the more complex they become and more prone to failure and less accessible for the average person to maintain. That is on top of the planned obsolescence. Switching to direct injection is the last thing in this direction. Not only the engines got more complex by adding high pressure fuel systems on them, but now you need to clean up the carbon deposits every 40-60k miles on the intakes. I changed the PCV system on my 2001 Volvo V70 with 300k km (187k miles). I have pictures of the intake valves. Sparkling clean. And for the DIYers like me it becomes cost prohibitive to maintain even a 20 years old car. You need expensive equipment if you want to properly diagnose a car like that. Gone are the days when with a pack of feeler gauges and a timing light you could tune up a car... And what bothers me the most is that the service data is not available unless you pay a subscription. To me is like they don't want you to service your own car. I like breathing clean air. A lot. But I feel like we're pushing this too far. And the story with the Diesel engines is even worse.
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@archygrey9093 True. I still use my 2010 Thinkpad. The first gen I7 cpu in the market. I added more memory and installed an SSD and it is still a very good laptop that I can use for programming.
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@paulyarlett1238 I heard about this kind of theft before. Horrible to steal another man's bread.
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@archygrey9093 Linux Mint is great. Just works. I'm using it on may main desktop. The laptop has Fedora installed. I do have a small windows laptop also, but only because the Power Commander software I use to tune my motorbike works on Windows.
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The rear door and the hood on my Volvo would be much harder to lift w/o the gas charged struts. I know that because I changed the rear door ones. The good news is that they're easy to find even for my 20 years old car and they're not very expensive.
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Her handlers didn't tell her to be!
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@archygrey9093 Gotta try Parrot. Never looked at it. First time I hear about it also, Fedora with KDE is good. They seem to be pushing Gnome, but I don't like that. KDE is much closer to the Cinnamon in Mint and is very nice and feature rich. My car is 20 years young! LOL no hacking that!
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@Farlig69 You are a fanboy. One in denial.
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@Farlig69 :))
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I totally agree with what you said in this video. Never gave a thumbs up more wholeheartedly. But the problem with having an older car, at least here in the communist western Europe is that we're taxed more for older vehicles. And with the apparition of the low emission zones in the cities there are even more restriction placed on old cars. The nearsightedness of the governments is astonishing. And people are wasteful in general. It's amazing how biased against cars this whole 'green' thing is. Governments are asking for ridiculously low emission targets from car manufacturers while we throw away about 50% of the food production, which has enormous consequences for the environment.
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Nope... they're junk as everything else: https://pressroom.toyota.com/voluntary-recalls/
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