Plastic junk you can’t fix

Where is a good place to sale my old wrecked car? Please help me by sugesting some sites or companies.

Touche Moe Rubenzahl, touche. All I can say is hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue. That, and consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds. OK, seriously your are very right and very perceptive. If what I am saying is that you should spend way more initially and then suffer that opportunity cost rather than just replace the cheap broken thing, you are right-- I am being emotional and I am wrong. I would like to think that the total cost including time-adjusted opportunity cost and repair cost would be less over the total life of a good old-fashioned vacuum. Thanks for paying attention and thanks for calling me out-- if those Harley's of mine cost a lot more to buy than a Honda they may not be the most cost effective. You got me thinking.

Dunno where his dealer got $362. for a window regulator - according to HondaAutomotiveparts.com a regulator for a front door power window can be had for $52.44 plus shipping and has a list of $74.92... genuine parts. Sounds like the usual dealer gouge: just replace everything in sight, including the motor which would be the usual point of failure. In my experience nothing needs to be replaced - the glass falls off the regulator bar because the nuts came of the studs round about that model year. As for plastic engineering, it can be done right and.....

I repair anything that I have built, for free. It encourages me to get it right. But I'm sorry to say, most manufacturers now look on servicing & repair as a "profit centre". So far as vacuum cleaners go, I use a broom. maybe I'll upgrade to a carpet sweeper one day.

There are two points here with which I disagree. First is about repairability. I heard a pretty smart guy say once (actually, numerous times) that cost is a good measure for whether an energy-efficiency technology makes sense. (e.g. "Non-technical people seem to object when I point out that for a technology to be really green it has to cost less.") Why would the same argument not apply here? It seems a shame when something costs more to repair than it would be to buy a new one, but most appliances are pretty old before they ever need repair. In general, they last longer, require fewer repairs, and in real dollars, are less and less expensive to buy. Repair is an inefficient activity. Economically -- and, I will argue, in terms of resources -- it is better to lower cost of production and extend reliability such that repair becomes less and less necessary (and along the way, less viable). Second is about plastic parts. I remember in the late 1960s when photographers were going nuts over plastic camera bodies. The arguments were mostly subjective and mostly wrong. Over time, plastic won. Vacuum cleaners are, on the whole, pretty reliable and I really question the sweeping judgement that plastic parts are junk.