!fuckcars
A place to discuss problems of car centric infrastructure or how it hurts us all. Let's explore the bad world of Cars!
::: spoiler 1. Be Civil You may not agree on ideas, but please do not be needlessly rude or insulting to other people in this community. :::
::: spoiler 2. No hate speech Don't discriminate or disparage people on the basis of sex, gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, or sexuality. :::
::: spoiler 3. Don't harass people Don't follow people you disagree with into multiple threads or into PMs to insult, disparage, or otherwise attack them. And certainly don't doxx any non-public figures. :::
::: spoiler 4. Stay on topic This community is about cars, their externalities in society, car-dependency, and solutions to these. :::
::: spoiler 5. No reposts Do not repost content that has already been posted in this community. :::
Moderator discretion will be used to judge reports with regard to the above rules.
In the absence of a flair system on lemmy yet, let’s try to make it easier to scan through posts by type in here by using tags:
I discovered this hack and I'm never buying a new vehicle ever again. I have a 25 yr old truck and a car nearly as old. On the car I've long since ditched the old head units to get bluetooth and Android Auto, cleaned up the minor surface rust on the frame and got a protective coating sprayed on, had the seats reupholstered, and upgraded brakes and suspension.
All that cost me less than a new car including the cost of the car and I didn't have to either pay a massive lump sum all at once or go into debt to buy it.
I drive similarly old vehicles (my oldest is 33; my newest is 18). The other reasons for it are:
I avoid the exploitative misfeatures of new cars, such as privacy-violating "telemetry" and property-rights-violating "subscription features"
I get features that are hard or even impossible to find these days, such as manual transmissions even on my SUV and pickup truck.
