Re: maintenence items - slightly off topic

From: Andy Levy (andy.levy@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Aug 05 2011 - 15:14:05 EDT


On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 14:38, Josh Battles <cletusjones@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> All this talk about zerk fittings got me thinking...
>
> Over the years and the few different vehicles I've owned there have
> been very different maintenence items.  On the older cars everything
> was serviceable but on my 2K Dakota nothing was serviceable.  On
> european vehicles everything is serviceable as well, even some of the
> very new stuff.  Obviously other carmakers still see this as a viable
> option, so why not Chrysler?

Making the parts non-serviceable makes them cheaper to produce. And a
revenue source when they inevitably need replacement (because you
can't service them).



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