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camperdave
Dec 21, 2018Explorer
Preventive maintenance is often worth it, but many things are better to run to failure. The trick is understanding the effects of that failure, and if it's worth spending the money to avoid it or not...
Possible broken dump valve? Not gonna worry about it until it breaks. Timing belt? I'm replacing as per the schedule. Consequences of failure are much different.
The ultimate decision on whether to do preventive maintenance on an item or not is up to each person, and everyone has different thoughts on the severity of a failure. One man's disaster is just a minor inconvenience to another.
Possible broken dump valve? Not gonna worry about it until it breaks. Timing belt? I'm replacing as per the schedule. Consequences of failure are much different.
The ultimate decision on whether to do preventive maintenance on an item or not is up to each person, and everyone has different thoughts on the severity of a failure. One man's disaster is just a minor inconvenience to another.
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