Oil changes and pad swaps are maintenance.

So are spark plugs, ignition, bushings and joints, to an extent. That's when you find out if the engineering was aimed at repair and longevity vs. initial assembly.

After 20 years, when sensors, wiring, emissions controls, and general entropy set in, that will be the make or break point. Good luck with unintended consequences of auto stop/start and cylinder deactivation. This is a known issue on GM and Mopar engines that have attempted this. Hopefully for your dad's sake Ford has figured out how to avoid GMs mistakes. I don't have to worry about it, I have an early 2000's panther platform with the 4.6.

Continually stopping and restarting the engine is extra work on the starter and electrical system, and indirectly on the oil and cooling. For what, 0.1gal fuel savings at a red light? Personally I'd rather burn the fuel than smoke the starter, but to each their own.

It's called sustainable income... They needed a way to make sure they have a more stable projection of annual income... if they made stuff to last, they would be putting themselves out of business...

Agree, and it's short sighted greed. They prioritize short term earnings over long term growth.

Make a vehicle that will last decades and can be easily repaired and you won't sell new ones as quickly, BUT you will eventually dominate the market, as people turn to your products and stay.

I understand what you're saying. That new stuff is being made cheaper. Not everything is though you can still get quality from car.

Says the useful idiot with poor grammar. “They’re” is the proper insult. The original definition of “ignorance “ was: to purposely ignore facts. Ignoring these two PhD’s fits.

Well it's ok that you deny climate change. What's next the moon landing? You realize that climate can change right.

Climate has changed. Many different cycles, doesn’t mean it’s man-made. How much power does it take to break the gravitational pull of the Earth? How much power did the Saturn V rocket have? Was that enough?

Actually I can counter both of those. Yes, climate changes. But we knew about the greenhouse effect in the 1800's! We predicted these temperatures a century ago. Climate change is being accelerated by humans, faster than animals can adapt. Also you need to go 8 metres per second to escape earth gravity (i think)

Actually the UN, in 2015, admitted they were going to use "Global Warming" as a tool to redistribute the wealth of the world.

Yes. That makes sense! Global warming is a good reason to redistribute wealth.

That's pretty nifty. When's the ETA on those checks?

You need to complain to the UN... that's where they're funneling the money...

Yeah, I'll go and complain about QAnon fanfic not coming true right now.

No, they did not predict any such temperatures a century ago. Heck, they predicted sailing through open waters in the Arctic Circle and mangoes growing in my backyard by 2014. Literally.

Actually, in the late 1850's, they predicted temperatures very similar to our results.

No, they did not.
You're a half century off. And that's in terms of describing the phenomenon, not accurate predictions pertaining to our time.

More recent themselves predictions proved to be so incorrect, that the term "Global Warming" had to be changed to " Climate Change" in order to account for their blunder when temperatures started dipping in the early 2000s after peaking in the late 1990s.

Fun fact about the moon landing. Do you know why we never went back in half a century? Because they lost the blueprints for the Saturn V Rockets. I kid you not. That's why. The Nazis who designed it had died. They went to from calvaries and bayonets and propeller airplanes to the V2 in a couple years, and in half a century we still don't know how to fill a big tubular tank of gas up and go back to the moon.

Now all we have to do is come up for a reasonable explanation as to why the astronauts were hopping around the Moon in slo-mo, and we're set to go.

The have plans to go back. Was at the Kennedy Space Center this summer. Saw the plans for the "Artemis" mission. They are planning to go back but it's like a 3 phase plan

Yes, they even started building the International Space Station in the 1980s in order to prepare us to go back to the Moon because apparently the first time wasn't preparation enough, despite the fact that they actually landed on it.

The climate changes.....it just has nothing to do with man or money.
Hope this helps

Nope, even AI says it's only a fraction of a fraction

Bro google ai is cursed af
either way. an increase in carbon in our atmosphere from like 0.02% to 0.03% has raised global temperatures a whole degree celsius.

No it hasn't. Sorry bro.ive been listening to global warming nonsense for 52 years.ive seen them move the goal post 25 times. At this point it's pathetic
It simply is not real. Period.

Not necessarily the best argument.
Just because someone's high blood pressure makes eating pizza not exactly an optimal endeavor doesn't mean add another teaspoon or two to it will make it any better.

Lol bruh trust Ai. Google AI told me Hitler didn't die in WW2

Yes... there was a time long ago, when humans believed they were the center of the universe...

424vuv.jpg (click to show) there is no such thing as a “consensus of scientists”

I'm not going to reply to any politics stream comment after this.
99% of scientists agree climate change accelerated by humans is real.

It’s really about 50/50, but 99% of the funding for scientists only goes to the groups that perpetuate the man-made global warming hoax. See East Anglia climate change hoax.

Yeah I looked at it
Absoloute bs.

Any reason why?

And we get nothing out of acknowledging it either. Things just get more expensive.

I mean you get to understand how the world works and stuff but if you deny it then we have a problem. Its like not acknowledging that Nazis killed Jews if you say it's fake all it does is make you seem like an idiot

Nope , the world is fine. And there is not a problem.
Nazi killed juus, and juus killed 5x as many Christians as the bolsheviks
That's a Block for insults

Same jews are the ones running the climate hoax... lets see if zionist Don will oppose them..

You realize the Jews where almost wiped out???? You really have no idea of how history works do ya lil buddy

No