Originally Posted by
yr right
Cars engineered to be low maintenance. I think not. Car engineered to be assembled on a production line. Large components bing bam thank you next. That is till they require repair.
Like a switch in a mates European car. $154 for the switch. 4000$ to change it. Requires the whole dash and most of the engine to be dismantled to gain access to the dash bolts.
I don't think you understand the difference between repair and maintenance. Old cars were relatively easy to repair, but they required lots of maintenance. Newer cars are vastly more complex, with way more widgets and gadgets, but spend many more km on the road before they require even the very rudimentary scheduled maintenance that they do now. Of course, complex things are expensive to repair, but that's not maintenance and in fleet terms, recalls and design/production stuff-ups excepted, is relatively rare.
Look at the distance cars travel these days before they're considered scrap! 200k+ is common, and taxis seeing half a million clicks before things start to be replaced in earnest! Unthinkable twenty or thirty years ago.
Originally Posted by
yr right
The philosophy of aircraft has not changed and never will. Something that not a large requirement in a motor car.
Weight !!
Yeah, well perhaps you should leave the design philosophy to the designers. Weight is only one of the many design criteria. The real problem is that (GA) aircraft designs haven't actually moved on much from the 50's production technology, except perhaps in the less regulated sectors like LSA... If we were still driving around in 1980's Magnas and
VB Commodores, driving would be as **** as flying in the certified aircraft fleet is today!