The aftermarket parts FIASCO
It's a war on the aftermarket, the DIY guy... This cheap sub standard JUNK.
The trend of *automobiles* is go buy new, buy buy buy. Then when it goes bad, throw it away... But in the intirim take it to a dealer for consenual rape since they are factory trained to even lay a hand on your *automobile*.
Now for my rant:
It's an atrocity, everything is trying to point 'us' to buying or leasing a new vehicle, trading it in every three years or whatever, and accept no responsibility of vehicle ownership to maintain and do it yourself to save money. Case and point, the less parts *people* have to buy at the parts stores, the less demand there is for quality, 'as a whole'... Your common idiot doesn't care.
Bottom line is money, less quality, more profit for auto parts and the *Industry*
They want purchasers of new cars to let the DEALER do everything, and I mean EVERYTHING. It's like consensual RAPE...
Then we poor SOB's TRY and find at least OEM quality stuff to last us for a while on our jalopies and going to a 'stealership' is the only way to avoid the junk at the parts stores. Fine and dandy but the pricing structure f*cks us again because we will have to pay HIGH RETAIL for our shit. Then after so many years they discontinue the OEM stuff and start substituting other unknown crap for OEM...
It's getting to be way to political to maintain your own car. Or I'm getting way too cynical.
People say, "I shop at NAPA" (or insert name of some other store) because they have better stuff... BULLSHIT, Same junk, different store.
Most people don't care what they buy. They just want the cheapest thing they can get their hands on.
Ahhh, good to be alive, yes?
