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When I get on my old tractor I am thankful for the heavy duty parts that were put together to make it last 55 years. Then reality hits me up side the head when my nearly new weedwacker spits out plastic parts that should have been made of metal. Having said this I'm especially thankful for my wife who listens to an old geezer and understands my way of thinking instilled by parents who survived the Great Depression by making stuff last.
 
Sitting on my tractor mowing today thinking. Seams the newer the machine, more chance of a problem. I can get on my old 70 year old AC Model M crawler, and go for hours discing with no fear of something going wrong. The only plastic part is the mag cap. Stan
 
I agree wouldn't it be nice if they also made cars that would last and be able to be worked on with out having a $10,000 computer to tell you want is wrong with it and then finding the computer doesn't have a clue so your car or truck still will not run.
 
Thought some about it this afternoon plowing with my 48 JD D and 55H plow. Whole unit worked just fine for the last two days. Now we'll try the disc.
 
spent the last saveral days planting corn with a SuperM and 6row JD#70 planter(1956) Doing a total of about 80 acres
 
Got corn planted last week. Not old by anyones standards on here, 5488 IH and 1200 Case IH planter, but they are still pre computer, neighbors autosteer went out,spent two hours while I got sixty acres done, granted started earlier!! LOL!
 
Most satisfaction I get is when I need something, go dig in that old stuff and find what is needed to fix it right away. No trip to the store. No money to spend. Would join the Amish, but they don't want electricians. Dave
 
Yeah, I often long for the days when a car would last maybe 100,000 miles and needed a tune-up every 15,000 miles. I also long for the days when you could expect a good 20,000 miles out of a set of tires and the dashboard would get big cracks in it after a year.
 
Really now I do not believe you. My first car had 400,000 on it when I got it plus I did not have to pay more for it then I did an acre of land either. Now days the common man can not buy a car new. Shoot my whole farm cost my dad less then a new car costs today. I have said it more then once computers and cars do not mix well, I was a Former computer technician, when I was in the navy and do understand computers well
 
I used to pay $500 for a car with 60,000 miles on it and drive it past 100,000 miles. Pay $35 for a tune-up every 15,000 miles, oil change and lube, including grease job for $10, run a set of tires bald and pay $50 apiece for 4 new ones. Never had problem with dash cracking because I parked it in the garage.

Now you can't touch a car with $3,000 that'll run the same miles as the old ones For $500.

Wife's 2001 car needed a new Cat. converter at 70,000 miles... cost $1,000 to replace. 2003 truck needed new computer at 50,000 miles for $800 and didn't cure the problem. Spent another $500 to finally cure the problem.

Granted, wages weren't as high back then but you could do most repairs yourself if lacking funds.
 
I really can't address your experience with a 400K car since I wasn't there, but on average, cars in the past did not last as long. I credit the improvement of seal technology in large part, but there are a ton of other reasons. I also can't speak to the difficulty of working on a car with a computer controlled engine, because even though I've had several, and tend to keep them until mechanical failure, generally after 200K miles, I've never had a computer failure, nor anything that I couldn't diagnose without the diagnostic hookup. I'm very satisfied with today's automobiles.
 
Ya but you still had to hook it up to something to tell you what might be the problem. I have a truck right now that has been hooked up and the part did nothing to fix it and it has less then 200,000 on it. Same with a Geo tracker I had computer went out and $400 later and 3 different computers fixed it. Of course when I talk the old cars I am talking the 60 to the mid 70s which I have had good luck with get newer then mid 80s and to me you can not work on them and it takes a computer to find the problem and to hook up to a computer in my area is a $100
 
Ya back in 1970 or so you could buy a brand new car for less then $3000 and keep it till it had 150,000 on it and trade it in or sell it for $500 but it still ran might have smoked some but still ran. Now days a new car will cost you $25,000 and you can not even find the spark plugs on many of them let alone do any thing other then look under the hood and say what the heck is all that plastic
 
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