Comments by "Comm0ut" (@Comm0ut) on "Uncle Tony's Garage" channel.

  1.  @dont-want-no-wrench  Please list the effects with proof not feelings. All aspects of the US auto industry from cradle to grave are exhaustively measured.
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  2. Motorcycles in the US are TOYS and no one is forced to buy them. HD is not the company it was and the people it chose to insult have a great variety of options. The Japanese firms Honda, Kawasaki, Suzuki and Yamaha never insulted their customers let alone advocacted for third-party access to their customers children. I support independent American mechanics who keep ALL brands going long after their parent companies abandon them. No needs the Motor Company any more.
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  3.  @armankordi  They'd be long gone anyway by now. 700K may impress Bubba but in industry terms it's not much.
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  4. Most of it is cheapass manufacturers chasing every possible economy. Makers know saving pennies makes them millions. They don't even care about their own dealer techs but they do care about skinning every penny out of the customer. Plastic welded assemblies, no access, timing belts running in oil (timing belts exist to be cheap) etc are all maker money chasing. BTW here's a tip: Salvage yards now use a pan piercer to drain transmissions so when you get one, run a step drill through the hole (AFTER) pulling the pan then weld in a bung (see Ebay, they're cheap) and you save the pan.
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  5. I went to many Copart auctions working for a used car lot at the time and the effect of CFC is greatly exaggerated. The VAST majority of those vehicles traded in (the exceptions are too few to matter) were crap and would have been shredded shortly anyway. (Most salvage yards crush everything at/over ten years old unless it's special.) People saw a few ride they wanted and shat bricks. Meanwhile salvage yards made bank because CFC did not affect body, interior or suspension parts. They'd have an airgun party then send off the hulk.
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  6. 1000 1970s dollars are not the same as 2024 dollars. https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm Those cars of course were mostly scrapped because when they were made they were not icons of someones long vanished youth. (My first job was working a scrapyard in the 1970s when our most-used tool was a cutting torch.)
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  7. The only thing that can ever make wrenching pay decently for time spent is a mechanic shortage. Not my problem since I've done my own work except machining since the 1970s (saving absurd money!). I was wisely warned by a very good foreign car mechanic to avoid the industry as a career (a job now and then for toy money is different) so I went into aviation instead. I'd rather work on aircraft any day than recent cars.
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  8. I don't because I don't need to own new vehicle or even recent vehicles. I learnt to wrench in the proverbial old days, own every vehicle I ever wanted and they're paid for. New vehicles are someone else's problem.
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  9. I find that much for an otherwise unremarkable machine whose sole virtue is rarity hilarious. I collect vintage Britbikes and HDs, but I grew up with them and am not at all starry eyed because while TOYS are fun they're just motor vehicles. Everyone involved with vehicles should think like a used car dealer because pimps don't fall in love. If anyone who is NOT stone cold knowledgeable about what they want to buy reads this, make the effort to get smart or be rich enough not to care. If you want to drive or ride a machine one that you can flog is MUCH more fun than a garage queen you'll only own a few years before dying of old age.
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