"Shocking" discovery in my AF
Began some simple maintenance on the TC today. Removed the bottom cover to replace the plywood and found some issues. The frame holding the rear of the fresh water tank was damaged. ...
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donandmax,
Our Son owned a manufacturing company in the Midlands of England and of course we visited him and his wife. It's quite/very misleading to compare US made vehicles used as puns by Germans or Europeans etc made/owned vehicles in those countries. Why? If you had looked, you would have noticed that an average 10 year old German or European, Japan etc vehicle will have LESS than 50,000 miles or 80,000 KM on the odometer. It's the norm!
Why? Fuel alone at 2-3 times the cost per the same one gallon measure compared to the USA and makes it extremely expensive to drive a lot other than to the closeby store or to work and back. Hard to wear a vehicle or it's components out if it's hardly used in one place as compared to another. Also, the area/distance driven in the European countries and Japan is quite small/compact in size/distance compared to our large distances between cities and desired vacation/travel locations or commutes as these other coumtries use intense "mass transit" systems we don't have. WE Drive! Even worse in England where the entire crowded country is 53 million population and has an land area of less than Michigan which has 10 million pop. Name others!
Japan, the same land size as England has lots of mountains with 128 million pop (4 times California) in a country smaller than California which also has about the same percentage of land being mountains and we think California is crowded??? The USA alone has 3 million sq miles of land and Canada has about the same. That's 6 million sq miles of land in just those 2 countries!
Wouldn't it be better to use apple to apples to tell the real facts and reasons behind why vehicles or components wearout or that in one example the vehicles on average also are used to pull or carry far more weight over their mileages driven? Apples to eggplants isn't getting it or even close!
Here in the USA and Canada, a ten year old vehicle with 100,000 miles on it is called a "creampuff" and not easy to find! More miles if it's a diesel like most in Europe are. A 10 year old US made vehicle in the USA with less than 50,000 miles on the OD brings a very high dollar and they are very rare! 12,000 to 15,000 in the USA is referred to as standard miles driven per year! 2-3+ times Europe's average.
Our Son owned a manufacturing company in the Midlands of England and of course we visited him and his wife. It's quite/very misleading to compare US made vehicles used as puns by Germans or Europeans etc made/owned vehicles in those countries. Why? If you had looked, you would have noticed that an average 10 year old German or European, Japan etc vehicle will have LESS than 50,000 miles or 80,000 KM on the odometer. It's the norm!
Why? Fuel alone at 2-3 times the cost per the same one gallon measure compared to the USA and makes it extremely expensive to drive a lot other than to the closeby store or to work and back. Hard to wear a vehicle or it's components out if it's hardly used in one place as compared to another. Also, the area/distance driven in the European countries and Japan is quite small/compact in size/distance compared to our large distances between cities and desired vacation/travel locations or commutes as these other coumtries use intense "mass transit" systems we don't have. WE Drive! Even worse in England where the entire crowded country is 53 million population and has an land area of less than Michigan which has 10 million pop. Name others!
Japan, the same land size as England has lots of mountains with 128 million pop (4 times California) in a country smaller than California which also has about the same percentage of land being mountains and we think California is crowded??? The USA alone has 3 million sq miles of land and Canada has about the same. That's 6 million sq miles of land in just those 2 countries!
Wouldn't it be better to use apple to apples to tell the real facts and reasons behind why vehicles or components wearout or that in one example the vehicles on average also are used to pull or carry far more weight over their mileages driven? Apples to eggplants isn't getting it or even close!
Here in the USA and Canada, a ten year old vehicle with 100,000 miles on it is called a "creampuff" and not easy to find! More miles if it's a diesel like most in Europe are. A 10 year old US made vehicle in the USA with less than 50,000 miles on the OD brings a very high dollar and they are very rare! 12,000 to 15,000 in the USA is referred to as standard miles driven per year! 2-3+ times Europe's average.
