[jimmyswimmy]

I can't agree strongly enough with you, though I'm not sure about the term you recommend. On the one hand, imagine if your car were end of lifed after a couple years. On the other hand, imagine if it took 20 years. The first would ensure you are screwed, the latter would encourage serial corporate bankruptcy.

There's a good middle ground. Perhaps, like the 10 years for cars, it needs to be legislated. Perhaps this is what we consumers have decided to accept, that once the warranty runs out, that's it.

[sokoloff]

Average age of a car in the US hit 12.1 years last year: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/averag...

In the case of car service parts, there’s a burgeoning after-market network of suppliers. I can probably find 5+ parts from different suppliers for brake wear parts for even 25 year old cars sold in significant volume. As someone wrenching on very much not-new cars for the family (and occasional friend), I don’t think we need a legislative solution for car parts.

[rswail]

Except that there already is a legislated solution requiring manufacturers to supply parts for (depending on where) ~10 years, irrespective of warranty.

The fact that there is after-market suppliers is more that manufacturers haven't worked out how to stop that on purely mechanical parts.

They would much prefer to tie you to their own maintenance network and parts if they could.

[sokoloff]

I don’t think it’s a law in the US, though that’s the common knowledge/frequently repeated claim.

https://www.hemmings.com/stories/2020/08/03/ask-a-hemmings-e...

[jl6]

Remember a car costs about 100x as much as a hard drive so probably should be expected to last much longer.