To: SunkenCiv
A car could last for 20 or more years, but the auto industry has deemed the car parts will stay sky high making maintenance a night mare. I bought a new AC compressor for a 10 year old car, yes I'm crazy, it was 600 bucks! THe car's body and engine are perfect but everything else is going.....
They say a new car, if parted out, would be 3X the retail price of the whole car. Why is that?
22 posted on
09/23/2012 5:15:54 PM PDT by
central_va
( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: central_va
It was all explained 200 years ago by Adam Smith.
WTH does it have to do with recycling in the Upper Paleolithic?
25 posted on
09/24/2012 6:10:25 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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To: central_va
They say a new car, if parted out, would be 3X the retail price of the whole car. Why is that? Cash for clunkers eliminated a lot of viable parts vehicles (not to mention fully functional vehicles) from the marketplace. A salvage yard operator I know of went out of business waiting for the government to pay him for vehicles which he could not legally remove a bolt from which were taking up space he could have used for inventory.
35 posted on
09/25/2012 12:11:48 AM PDT by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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