Car Repairs

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The moment every car owner dreads.

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How would you like to pay?

... I don't

Nougat

That's not how that works. The shop has to provide you with an estimated bill that you have to approve before they'll even start working on it.

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Average Genius Bar experience

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If you have $4k in repairs due, this would be your response at the estimated bill given that car is gone now.

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How would you like to pay?

I'd like to use all that money I have in my bank account, but instead, I guess I'll use my credit card because my livelihood requires that I have a working car. I'm sure I can pay it off in the next few years before I need another crippling repair or other expense.

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Unfortunately new cars are more difficult to repair than older cars. Community mechanic shops and education need to be more common.

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Community mechanic shops and education need to be more common.

Nah, what you need is fewer cars and to not depend on them to stay alive.

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Don't let perfection be the enemy of progress. Those mechanic shops can transition to working on trains, bikes, EVs, etc. We can do both.

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IMO, I can't see how making progress on car maintainability would be easier than on car dependency.

One depends on local politics, the other on national (or maybe even national to a foreign nation) politics or somehow convincing a global oligopolist to lose a bit of money to help your cause.

But if you want to work on it, good luck and all the power to you. Don't stop just because another problem exists.

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The actual solution is to reduce dependence on cars.

Moineau

Americans giving you big mad downvotes. Fuck cars.

FartsWithAnAccent

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Also, learn to repair your own car or at least do basic maintenance if you absolutely have to rely on a car. It can save you a lot of money and much of it is surprisingly easy (sometimes this depends on what car you have though). Oil changes on my car cost $70-80 in a shop but if I did it myself it was closer to $40 and the whole thing maybe took 30 minutes.

Pika

right to repair needs to come faster, my fucking malibu needs to have the front bumper be partially removed in order to change the headlight. Yea let's risk cracking the bumper to change a headlight. Really nice.

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Oh, I'm not trying to say either are going to be easy, but they both have their individual benefits and there's some overlap. Having more community-based knowledge of internal combustion engines could still help people switch to motorcycles as a start.

You also never know when someone will make a connection that's never been thought of before, and completely change how we think about transportation, and the more knowledge in more people's hands, the better.

Just trying to say it's a "Yes, and" situation.

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Only 4 downvotes so far. Better than I thought it'd go.

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This hits to close to home. Just got a quote to fix my wife's car $3500. Likes it a 2008 Hyundai accent can buy another car for that. Crazy expensive fix we don't have.

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What broke?