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Originally Posted by SCP440
Unless somebody can come up with a way of getting the electronics repaired economically I suspect it will be down to a thousand or so in another 10 years. This seems to be the biggest killer of modern old cars these days. A warning light on now on some systems is an MOT fail and with the potential cost being thousands why would you bother if you can buy another car for less.
20 years ago we scrapped cars because of rust these days we scrap them because of electrical faults, probably a 10p resistor or diode but what ever it is it keeps car manufacturers busy. There is a lot to be said for poverty spec cars.
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The experienced T4 members of the forum already do that, and despite electronic modules being coded to our cars, we've found ways of being able to reuse second hand units and code them properly to the car. This has kept cost down and enabled many cars that would have otherwise been scrapped stay on the road.
Also on the forum there's lots of information that explains how to fault trace different problems far more than for any other make or model.
Unfortunately with a lot of the modules containing microprocessors and hundreds of components it's often impractical in terms of time to locate a faulty component.
What is really killing our cars faster than anything else is the quality of some of the replacement parts that are now available. If your paying good money time and again for the same job doing repeatedly then you're soon going to move on to something else. Some suspension components spring to mind but there's lots of others
Even once trusted parts suppliers we and our customers are finding that they are now stocking rubbish parts.
Russ