(05-02-2017, 03:14 PM)Meh Wrote:  The battery in my car died last Saturday morning, the same one that lasted all winter with subzero temperatures dies when it's spring.

See any car batteries on the side of the road? Probably witchcraft. Return to sender.

Actually...they aren't always that conspicuous with the witchcraft...it's a whole system this stuff and cleaning it up. Just energy harvesting through misery.

Theoretically everything you buy that's not consumable should last forever here. Nature of the environment. Degradation is just a process and typically it isn't a natural one. Also there's a "time" element that can make that degradation impossible.

Everyone's like reanimated corpses at this point (myself included).

I had an old Mercedes that I had to junk due to a short in the wiring harness. It would have been a €2,500 fix, which is €400 more than car was worth. Sometimes you have to call it quits and buy something else.

Stay clear of Mercedes and BMW's. The good deal you find on them goes to hell as soon as you have to buy parts and have them worked on. Even if you work on them yourself, the prices of the parts will kill you. If it's not a Toyota or a Ford I won't buy it.

(05-03-2017, 09:27 AM)Anonymous Kritter Wrote:  

(05-02-2017, 03:14 PM)Meh Wrote:  The battery in my car died last Saturday morning, the same one that lasted all winter with subzero temperatures dies when it's spring.  

See any car batteries on the side of the road?  Probably witchcraft.  Return to sender.

Actually...they aren't always that conspicuous with the witchcraft...it's a whole system this stuff and cleaning it up.  Just energy harvesting through misery.

Theoretically everything you buy that's not consumable should last forever here.  Nature of the environment.  Degradation is just a process and typically it isn't a natural one.  Also there's a "time" element that can make that degradation impossible.

Everyone's like reanimated corpses at this point (myself included).  

That's an interesting way to put that... I think...