How realistically possible is it to keep a car forever?

>>13945646
It's possible,just don't sell it.

>>13945646
No machine is 100% efficient and no material is immune to damage

You won't live forever. So it's not

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ask this guy

>>13945646
there is some cars that have gone for over one million kilometers, i drive around 10k a year, so i'd say its pretty possible

store it in a climate controlled environment and never drive it, and most cars will outlast you.

Many baby boomers still have their first cars

>>13945646
If you have unlimited funds anything is possible.

>>13945646
Keeping a car forever is the easy part. It's keeping it RUNNING all that time that's impossible.

>>13945646

Yes

By not driving it more than a couple of hundred miles a year, keeping it spotless, rust-protected and in a heated garage.

>>13945646
Impossible, but you can keep it for as long as you live.

Ok. OP here. Let me clarify. Is it possible to keep using a car as your daiy driver for the rest of your life?

If something breaks you can just fix it, right?

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Your first car will forever be in your soul and spirit, OP.

>>13945825
>wanting to keep the same car until you enter a realm of nonexistence for an eternity

Its like you have no taste.

>>13945646
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus

>>13945657
they can bury you in it

>>13945902
Willie the wimp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV8Pb3YECIQ

>>13945646
Money

>>13945825
The main problem is rust. If you can control that, then yes. But once the frame starts rusting, it is done. You could patch some parts, some stuff will just be unsafe.

The mechanical part is easy if you are willing to replace engines and transmissions.

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>>13945656
A design, is replicable. It's material, recyclable. It's history, now immune from the past.

We live in a time in which we can make anything happen and we can simply make it exist. When you have hardware stores selling both imperial and metric tools than the machine has already won in its ascension to immortality.

>>13945646
It isn't. Sure Volvo 240s and 90s Corollas are quite capable of surviving the inevitable heat death of the universe, but you aren't. Unless you're God. Which you aren't because I know for a fact he only posts on /h/ and /s4s/.

>>13945646
Quite. As long as there are parts available, you could run it forever.
Then again, you run into the ship of theseus paradox.

>>13946666
You don't, since you can't change the VIN plate

I suppose as long as you fix or replace any part that keeps it running, it's not impossible. But how many parts can you replace until it's no longer the same car?

>>13945646
It's not possible to keep forever if you're going to drive it. At some point parts will stop being available or be extremely expensive/hard to get.

Yeah I'd say so, it wouldnt be the same car after a while though. It'd be the same look and everything but eventually you'll have to keep it up with the times.

>>13945838
Word.

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>>13945646
very possible

>>13946223
>Sure Volvo 240s and 90s Corollas are quite capable of surviving the inevitable heat death of the universe
Are they really? Does iron have an infinite half-life?

Imagine metal/alloy/alluminum 3D printers.

I would download a car.

>>13945851
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
I always wondered this myself, but didn't realize there was a name for it.

>>13945646
its possible

but more than likely some fuck wit will crash into you or a nigger steals your shit

>>13946994
>The year is 2040
>3D printers have advanced far enough to print every car part, including the body and frame
>thanks to revolutionary CAD software, any object can be drawn up and printed to create an exact duplicate
>You can print any vehicle imaginable for free
>Have demolition derbies and banger races with Bugatti Type 57s, Shelby Cobras, Dodge Charger Hemis, Dusenbergs, and Ferrari 458s

Not possible. gas will be too expensive in 25 years

>>13947029
Do you kids really believe these dreams?
3D printing is a gimmick.
That's all it ever was.

>>13947053
haha this fag hasn't 3d printed his waifus pussy out

>>13945646
George Washington’s axe (sometimes “my grandfather’s axe”) is the subject of an apocryphal story of unknown origin in which the famous artifact is “still George Washington’s axe” despite having had both its head and handle replaced.
Yes, if you consider a car that you replaced every part on to be the same car if you do it at different times.

>>13947053
It is a gimmick now, but it has potential.

>>13947053
Wait what? Why would adaptive manufacturing not be the way of the future? Subtraction manufacturing is wasteful.
I'm actually interested in why you don't think were headed to "3d printing."

>>13945646
It's easy if you don't live on credit. When things go bad you replace them. Easy. The problem is faggots can't afford a $3k engine and $2k on new suspension, so they spend $400/month on a new car instead.

>>13947083
really spell check you hit me both times. Additive* subtractive*

>>13947087
3k engine... are you running a 5.0 mustang? Modern engines are like 8k-15k

>>13947057
Basically it's semantics. It's not the ORIGINAL car. But it's the same to the observer/owner. Paradox solved.

>>13947093
Which is why I said yes. As long as you accept the terms.

>>13947091
If you are a complete fucking moron maybe.

>>13947095
Buying new from the manufacturer makes me a moron?
I'm lost.

>>13947098
Why in the FUCK would you buy a factory engine? Every car out there has a used engine you can buy and do full maintenance on for less. So yes, you are a fucking moron.

>>13947091
What
My 5.0 Coyote in my F150 is listed as a $695 option, so obviously it only costs that much. Engines only cost as much as like $1000, if you have a Ferrari 548 Italy V8 edition or something. Idiot.

>>13947103
Because I don't want a random take off, there is a reason the engine is on the market.
Want to buy some used toilet paper? I only rubbed my shit on it one time.

>>13947113

I know you're trolling but on the off chance someone is drawn in by your dumb shit, an optional engine that costs $600 (if we were to assume that there is no overhead) costs $600 more than whatever the original engine was. This doesn't mean it costs $600 total. They may even sell at a loss on the engine if it forces you to select another package option. etc.

>>13947125
>I'm horrible at analogies.
LOL kk then. Faggot who can't admit when he's wrong.

>>13947132
That was an obvious joke you turbo nigger, I'm not even that guy.
>>13947136
Wrong about what? Buying new instead of used? You are the guy that just started name calling.

>>13947142
This fucking idiot

>>13947132
I really hate that you're forced to buy everything in packages now

Why can't I just have this one engine in a slightly above base model? So annoying.

>>13947146
mah name calling.

>>13947153
nigga you so stupid

>>13945646
only so long as people are there
some vintage cars are getting near third generation owners
and several car museums are closing down as their proprietors die

things from the 80s are now as rare and collectable as things from the 60s

>>13947149
I hate that it's ~$500 for a spare tire now. Talk about jew.
>>13947158
mah name calling

>>13947160
It's funny I bet the reason is because those cars are undesirable in California.
>things from the 80s are now as rare and collectable as things from the 60s
You can comifornia etc all you want but the smog exemption for pre 75 cars has led to there being quite a few well maintained pre 75 cars.
Everything that is post 75 and pre modern just gets scrapped/junked because no one gives enough of a shit to maintain a 1985 anything.

Options on cars are usually 40-80% markup over their actual cost.

Mazda sells the upsized engines at an insane premium for what is the same exact engine with a big larger displacement.

>>13945678
A million kilometers is nothing. Try one million miles

>>13945825
>If something breaks you can just fix it
it depends on the make of your car
factory spares dry up 10 years after the cars first year of manufacture
so you had better have a good aftermarket
or start fabricating your own body panels and drive train components

>>13946704
did theseus change the vin? was that legal in his day

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>>13947191
http://dynacornbodies.com/body-shells/challenger/
mfw you can buy a new shell of a 45 year old car.

>>13946993

Iron-56 has the second lowest nuclear energy (behind nickel-62) of any isotope in existence. So yes, iron does basically have an infinite half life ;)

>>13945838
This makes me sad I totaled mine

>>13947427
I bought a second car while I had my "first car" and that car is the car I'm worried about. I think by keeping it I can remove the "regret" that mots muscle car owners have.
[spoiler]I have a 2003 mustang GT now. It's a pos vs the mach1 and cobra, but I think if I sell it I'm gonna fuck myself.[/spoiler]

>>13947227
>muh matching numbers
http://www.somerford-mini.co.uk/services/re-shells

>>13947427
Sad you didn't die with her?

>>13945667

Is that the million mike dude. Damn car will never be built the same

>>13945694
Correction, they drove their actual first cars into the ground as young people and when they were old and wealthy they bought the exact same model but restored.

>>13947186
Desirability and demand dictate price, deal with it. Next thing you're gonna complain that Escalades are marked up for what's basically a Silverado with a different body and interior. People buy it for the price, period.

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>>13947648
caught in her warm metallic embrace
entering the eternal is bliss

>>13945646
It's easy as long as you replace parts as they fail and drive a relatively common car. I plan to keep my 06 CRV running until I die.

Most people get rid of their cars once repairing it is more costly than the cars value itself, which is why most people don't do it. Otherwise its just a cost thing

>>13947686
dude is that you

did you live

only if you live in the south-southwest

any moisture will fuck it up

>>13947815
I'm not a real person, I'm a ghost trapped in a beat

>>13947673
three million miles as of 2013

>>13947686
is the mr2 okay

>>13948244
>that fucking face when you realize that he did 0-999,999, 3 times!

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>>13945646
Working on it.

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Well, if you have a simplistic, reliable and easy on maintenance design, then yes.
You still see a shitload of Beetles, Minis, Renault 4, 2cv, etc.. on the road.

>>13947674

>Implying no one has ever taken the time to restore their own vehicle.

Literally wut?

>>13945646
>How realistically possible is it to keep a car forever?
not very possible because you dont live forever

My dad still has his old mopar from the 70s sitting in a garage slowly dying. Keeping cars is no problem if you've got the money and space.

Constantly driving them and using them is more of a problem. I know I could probably keep my shitbox forever, but what I'm scared about is someone totals my car in an accident then I'm fucked. Maintenance isn't too hard right now since parts are readily available (online or some auto parts places). I imagine in 10-15 years parts for a 80s german shitbox will be a bit harder to find

>>13947053
Fuck off Ethan

>>13945825
If the car you drive is common enough, and you avoid rust problems, and you don't run into anything, then yes.

Spare parts for high-volume cars like Tauruses, J-bodies, Accords, Corollas etc will be around until the sun goes supernova. If more than a million of your car's particular generation were built, you will likely always be able to find a remanufactured engine or transmission, you will always be able to find new brakes, shocks and other maintainance parts, and there will always be plenty of parts cars in the junkyard for oddball small items.

It's rare for it to be cost effective to repair any significant body damage on older cars, though. There are just too many cheap undamaged used cars to make it practical.

>>13946994
you dont have to imagine, there are a variety of metal processes available to end-consumers