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  • tl;dr: financing regular maintenance parts for any vehicle is a bad idea. Avoid money pits.

    Car depreciation is a thing and those prices are insane to finance. It doesn’t make sense to buy a part that’s worth more than the entire vehicle. This was an issue with Prius’s when they first rolled out. When the battery pack died, the car still ran, but it was in the range of 10k to the battery replaced. It did not make sense to replace it on a vehicle that was probably well into 5 or 6 years. You could also sell the Prius because it was still held value as a running vehicle. Thankfully, aftermarket products have been created to significantly reduce the cost to make it reasonable to replace a battery on a Prius; somewhere between $2k to $3k with DIY kit.

    It’s a stupid idea to finance parts for a vehicle when the value exceeds financing a whole new / used vehicle. If you end up totaling your vehicle, you’re still out the cost for just the financed parts. You’ve essentially put yourself way upside down on a depreciating asset. Pretty sure insurance isn’t going to cover the financed parts when they total a vehicle out. Tesla should have allowed right to repair and manuals to fix their wastes of space like Toyota did for the Prius. I know it’s a hybrid, but hybrids are looking to be less of a hassle to maintain and best of both worlds. It’s a trend to keep milking people for every last penny with financing every damn thing.








  • nthavoctopolitics @lemmy.worldWhy AOC should run for president in 2028
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    Voters used their feelings rather than looking at who was fit for the job. You can say Harris sucked all day long, at the end of the day, of the two candidates, she was more fit. And yes, maga ran that as part of their smear campaign with dumb shit like because she was a woman “her heightened woman emotions would cloud her judgement.” There were literal ads. This was used to help persuade a good chunk of 75 million fucking idiots to elect someone who is clearly a fucking moron and has dementia. Nobody should base their vote on whats between the candidates’ legs, but clearly a good portion of voters did.


  • nthavoctopolitics @lemmy.worldWhy AOC should run for president in 2028
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    Look … not that I have anything against women running for president … but … if we haven’t learned twice from the shitty decision making of the voter population, 2028 is not the year to test if the US can get its first woman as president AGAIN. I’m going to chalk this up as democrats just can’t stand to win and the media needs to stop encouraging that line of thinking. We’ll be lucky if there even is a 2028 election. Also, did everyone forget AOC is not in the good graces of kingmaker Pelosi?