Comments by "Comm0ut" (@Comm0ut) on "The Electric Viking" channel.

  1.  @opensprings  Designers! They insist on overly complex systems which suck to maintain and repair. I'm a lifelong mechanic with much love for OLD, QUALITY German machines like the BMW Airheads I owned, but even with my free, skilled, competent labor and a capable home shop I don't see anything compelling about modern German vehicles and it appears I'm not alone.
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  2. Do you have any citations for that since they're "loud"? Sounds more like unions howling about reduced labor. Castings can be welded (properly) and modern collision repair has found ways to join materials like (NHTSA tested) adhesives which are also used in new vehicle construction.
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  3. I find it hilarious people are silly enough to put down a deposit on a vehicle they know NOTHING about, but they're rich so it doesn't really matter. This mechanic would never buy anything unproven and without hundreds of thousands of units of a given model ON THE ROAD for several years, but no one ever accused the public of being smart.
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  4. Rare earths are neither.
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  5. Technical details of the arguments for and against would be nice, May we have a TLDR in the next video? Not everyone viewing this is tech-illiterate. BTW noneof this is a consumer problem so it should not be "cast" as such. If a company considers a process not cost-effective they're perfectly free not to use it. None of this should be a concern to anyone outside the industry. Large complex castings either meet specifications or not and those which don't either get rework or scrapped and the metal reused. Casting tech is not static. It continuously improves. Cars with or without it are easily "totaled" (even old simple vehicles, I've spun wrenches since the 1970s) and modern auto salvage (see videos) efficiently removes usable components. That's been the case since the first automobiles. As a lifelong mechanic I would not want any severely hit new vehicle back so easier totals are something of a stealth consumer bonus. Conventional welded unibodies crumple when hit to absorb impact and are also declared beyond economic return to pre-crash quality. If things don't work out other makers using other processes will serve the public. That's a stockholder issue.
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  6. Good. China is an enemy society to freedom and democracy, not a friendly country with a temporary enemy government. Pretending otherwise is lie or delusion, usually a corporate delusion of convenience. China is actively genociding the Uigher people and has no concept of civil rights. Ford does not NEED to be global to make money. That was always purely optional.
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  7.  @rogerstarkey5390  You seem confused about what that term means. Who owns an object can do with it as they see fit, but artificial barriers to repair by companies seeking "vendor lock" is expensively wasteful and interferes with repairing otherwise fixable equipment.
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  8. Hype is hilarious. Wise people NEVER beta test and let rich silly people waste their money instead. The world does not need more automakers. That idea may surprise people who haven't studied automotive history. Most brands fail and industry consolidation is perfectly normal. Unethical companies deserve to fail. The world has more automakers than it needs by a long shot so nothing of real value is lost.
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  9. Recent German vehicles appear designed by people who HATE mechanics. That's why the car lot I wrenched for swapped off all their German trade-ins to salvage yards instead of fixing then selling then fixing them again when some other fecal system broke down. I don't think current Germany is capable of good work in this respect because everyone who understood the old German quality culture is either dead or so old they cannot contribute.
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  10. That's why I only buy established makes. Let the chumps be beta testers.
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  11. That is not how lithium is mined. Why to tech-illiterates permit themselves opinions on subjects they do not understand? Lithium is not cobalt. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3CrFR1Jk1w
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  12. This will be amusing for crash repair (a subject only mechanics are able to understand therefore care about but everyone pays for via insurance) because these castings ensure more vehicles beyond economic repair in crashes. OEMs do not care about crash repair because the ideal car explodes the second it's paid off.
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