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Sounds like the odler generation making the same old assumptions and statements about the younger generation that our elders made about us.
Easy to be critical and say 'my first car only cost $XXX' but take off the rose coloured glasses and be realistic. We've probably all blown $ on cars and other items that in hindsight we shouldn't have. Car10002 my observation is that you're always asking questions on here but they are actually quite similar in nature |
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Mechanic myself and I'm shocked when we get a batch of work experience kids who have no interest in cars.
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Generally the ones who stick around are passionate about what they do - thats why you can get some real skilled and knowledgeable people working these places even though they're virtually living on the poverty line lol. And we tend to be pretty eccentric people I guess - like the male version of the dreaded horse women (they're god damn weirdos - avoid) |
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Forget what others are doing, do what sits right with you. If you wanna run an car, go for it All said and done it’s your money, your car and it has to fit in with your lifestyle, not other peoples
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OK a question for youse young whipper snippers.
There was a time when cars didn't have heaters - so how did we clear the mist from the inside of the windscreen? |
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I think the smoke haze deposited on the insides of windscreens actually limited further moisture hazing, to an extent.
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None of the young driving age kids in my street who still live at home with mum & dad have new cars.
They drive small cars that are between 4 and 10 years old. There are a lot of kids driving secondhand Mazda's and Hyundai's in my street. The mums & dads tend to drive cars of a similar 4 to 10 year age but in the SUV and Dual Cab Ute range and there are a few exceptions with new SUV’s or Dual Cabs. Most of the mums and dads have a car each which wasn’t the case when I was a youngster, mum has the SUV while dad has the Dual Cab. . Last edited by Express; 16-06-2019 at 11:50 AM. |
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Otherwise you gotta have the heater on and it gets too warm at windscreen defogging levels and it's like a god damn sauna ![]() |
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What’s wrong with the AC?
Young couple up the road have a WH with no working aircon, wondered if the ‘00s upwards had a particular weak point. |
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Nah, ac delco compressors arent the most reliable. The only form of working ac in my first car was good old 4x80. When the drivers window regulator died it was 3x80. That was a $50 wrecker fix. The ac compressor would have been $1500 for a reco.
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Good ol QRTR windows, great demisters when turned on angle for the air to fly through to the screen.
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Half a spud on the inside & half a spud on the outside in the rain, especially with vacuum wipers.
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Heaters yes but AC I've never had. I reckon the old quarter windows flipped all the way around were great for demisting.
Newspaper was a good windscreen clearer device. I remember driving from Bathurst to Orange once after an overnight stop over sleeping in a Kingswood wagon, just to defrost and warm the cabin up. I guess, older vs younger can also depend on where you live and how you are influenced.
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Solved that problem when I bought my first Holden panel van.
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Younger generation want to work shorter hours, less work for more pay. My GF is in retail and sees kids come and go because they don't realise that they have to actually work for an income, not just snap & instra!
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However, what is different now is computers, smart phones and young people becoming addicted to that instant reality where things just need to be scanned and flicked - short "lol" 2 liners with photos that are finger flicked. Hours and hours of this on a young brain acts on how the young brain forms- neurons and axon pathways. These fundamental brain formations prior to age 22 were formed differently prior to the smart mobile computer, when young people had to read books and deep dive into texts. So what is happening is younger people often have developed their brains in a different way to those generations who had no smart mobile computers. Still possible for those young people to grow their brains by engaging in deep diving of the brain such as skilled apprentices, uni, etc. But if a young person develops their brains along both pathways, they will be far more capable in the future than those of us that developed pre smart mobile computers,
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I admire your optimism, but can’t share it. I believe we’re already pretty much one generation in too far for a genuine, effective, reshaping of social trajectory.
The gross weight of numbers in the “Don’t know, don’t care, don’t wanna be told” camp is enough to swamp diligence, balance and reasoned discourse. |
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But I agree that there is a fundamental difference now, and I consider that is how digital mobile instant land is shaping young people's minds today. Whether that reshaping will be a good or bad thing remains to be seen with fullness of time....
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Gone are the days of fault finding, tracing issues, process of illumination. Now it's: "How do I remove wheel?" *List the steps from removing jack from boot to removing wheel "Oh, is there an easier way? Don't worry, I'll get dad to do it"
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