(24-06-2013, 09:24 PM)Niall Wrote: Regardless of the fact that it may cost 400 to fix a 500 car, its then one thing fixed. Its a wasteful and pointless idea to scrap a 500 quid car just to buy another of a similar value and then have the same issue a few months later.
And then a week later the clutch/headgasket fails and you've got another £300 garage job on your hands... Trust me, I've done it twice and learnt from it!
I do see the point in that fixing it is one less thing to go wrong, but that's just one less out all the hundreds of things that could potentially go wrong as soon as you fix it...
I don't think its wasteful anyway, it's not like they go to landfill, they get broken for the parts and then the majority of the car gets recycled anyway. If everyone kept their car until it literally fell apart there'd be no used spares around.
Matter of opinion I guess, as Curt said.