Comments by "TotalRookie_LV" (@TotalRookie_LV) on "driving 4 answers" channel.

Electric cars do a lot for sustainability, only battery is an issue, other than that, they have very, very few moving parts, thus less wear and tear outside suspension and electric motors. Emissions wise, electric cars win over internal combustion engines even in the worst scenario - if ALL electricity is produced by coal plants, and that includes power needed to produce an electric car compared to a fuel powered one, not from the go, but during it's lifecycle it does win. If, however, electric power is produced by more environmentally friendly means, it takes much less time to become emissions neutral.
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CITROËN AMI "quadricycle" exists. Yes, top speed is limited and it's an EV, but for a city dweller like it it would be fine.
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I don't get that crossover tendency either. If one has issues with legs or back, or it's just old age, then getting a SUV or a van makes sense - it's easier to get in and out if seats are higher. But other than that, I love to lose SUVs in curves and roundabouts in my big family station wagon, because they can't keep up due to their higher centre of mass.
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So, since I hot a gasoline engine, I guess it's a lesser or no problem on my car. Just googled by the brand and engine code, if that engine has EGR at all, most responses pointed at EGR cooler, so I guess it's a bigger issue than the valve itself.
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Until last year I had a 1995 Golf III Variant, it was absolutely sufficient. Likely I'd still try to keep it running, if it wasn't for my failing health, which forced me to switch to a car with only two pedals. 😒 The only thing my old car lacked were parking sensors, whose would have made my life much easier.
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Buying diesel made perfect sense, if one had long daily commute, but that is not my case, besides I did not want issues with injectors, so common on diesels, and my wife can't stand diesel exhaust. If I had a lot of money, I'd buy a hybrid or an EV, but as of now, I got an old gasoline car.
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Hmmmm, if I remember correctly, 6061 aluminium is also used to produce extruded aluminium profiles, like those used for window frames.
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Shouldn't the shorter lifespan drive down prices on used cars? I mean, they now are more headache than before. And fast loss of value should make buyers of new cars unhappy, because they will know, that getting a new car will now be more complicated, due to less money regained from the sale of the previous one. Which means, buyers of brand new cars are the biggest losers now, unless they find a way to keep prises high on those used cars.
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P.S. I know, I'm not a good example of an average consumer, but I do have: - a 11 year old phone (not a smartphone, and I don't use it currently), and I'm not swapping my smartphone unless it pisses me off or breaks (threw the previous one out, as enough is enough!), - my previous PC was used for 12 years, and only got swapped, because it no longer was up to the spec, - my bicycle was 16 years old, and I got a new one only because it got stolen, - my car is slightly over 25 years old, rusty, simple, small people's car, a station wagon, although, I must admit it still is there partly because it has so called GTI engine, so the old fart is in no way slow.
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