ALL modern cars are bangers
My understanding of the term, is that it was originally applied to a disposable car for which a significant (perhaps MOT) failure would result in replacement rather than repair.
Nearly all of my past cars would have been considered bangers by other people, since they were cheap, but were not considered bangers by me, since I would usually attempt to repair them, at least until the tax disc ran out and the neighbourhood Stazi called the cops.
DIY repair tends to undermine the basis of bangernomics since it removes the basis for determining that a repair is uneconomic.
I understand that cars are now built to be uneconomic to repair at much younger ages, and may not be repairable at all if a particular electronic module is unavailable, hence my opening statement.
Indeed - rather like a computer (especially laptops), tablet or mobile phone, where you either can't get compatible replacement parts at all, they are very hard to find and extortionately expensive (for what they are), and where expertise is required to fit the new part, that adds a big amount on top.
Or the software becomes obsolete and incompatible with other devices that interface with the product, making them useless whether they actually work fine in all other respects or not.
I wouldn't be surprised if EV charging goes the same way as many computer/AV tech, where you can't find a compatible connector or the onboard OS / charging software 'can't' be updated after about 8-10 years making the car obsolete, and requiring yet more 'carbon' to be expended to build a 'replacement'.
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