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Re:Why almost everyone was wrong about Tesla’s cash flow sit... by ghaff on Friday October 26, 2018 @11:29AM (#18310149)
Yeah. It used to be a lot worse believe it or not. But, still, anything over about 10 years old in the Northeast and other snowy regions are pretty much at EOL. I made the mistake with a prior vehicle (which I bought used) of doing a couple fairly major repairs when it was about 12 years old and it ended up being just a cascading set of failures due to rust.
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Re:Why almost everyone was wrong about Tesla’s cash flow sit... by rightbyte on Friday October 26, 2018 @05:09PM (#18312712)
Uhm ... I drive a -98 Volvo V70, 300 000 km, in central Sweden. It's no way where near EOL and it's snow and salt on the roads. If I change the brakes it's good for maybe 2-8 years more before the gearbox might give up.

The secret is to to preemptive rust measures. Just paint it like you would on a boat and change rusty parts on the underbelly before the rust spreads to the car body.

Preemptive measures are cheap and not that much work. When it's too late though ... I wonder how much greater the average car life span would be if the drivers just took a oil dispenser every third month and oiled the parts.

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Re:Why almost everyone was wrong about Tesla’s cash flow sit... by mixmastamyk on Friday October 26, 2018 @12:14PM (#18310585)
Isn't that what the "under body" coating supposed to help with?
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Re:Why almost everyone was wrong about Tesla’s cash flow sit... by PopeDotNinja on Friday October 26, 2018 @12:20PM (#18310656)
Think of an under coating like underwear you never take off. It's not going to protect you for long if refuse to wash your underside.
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Re:Why almost everyone was wrong about Tesla’s cash flow sit... by ghaff on Friday October 26, 2018 @12:25PM (#18310718)
"Help" is the operative work. Modern auto manufacturers do a lot of things to help vehicles resist rusting out both in terms of the structure and in the various brake lines and so forth. So now they rust out in maybe 10+ years rather than 5 or less.
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Re:Why almost everyone was wrong about Tesla’s cash flow sit... by rasz on Saturday October 27, 2018 @01:30AM (#18314495)
no, its cosmetic, water ingress between the layers and eats the car in a way you cant see

@19:30 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INNMrAGl0Bg

@4:15 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn-cqoVYQR0

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZJS6Md1UOg2Wsc48Hr7x...

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