Old 08-28-20, 10:17 PM
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Originally Posted by rydabent
​​The best example that I can think of in this moment is CVT transmissions in some cars. They have been known to lunch themselves in less than 50 thousand miles. My nephew bought a car with one for his wife, and it destroyed itself at about 40K.
This is dumb. It's not like there aren't examples of other types of transmissions that "been known to lunch themselves in less than 50 thousand miles".
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Originally Posted by rydabent
Just because something is new, doesnt automatically make it better. It has to be proved better.
This is dumb too. Who said that newer is necessarily better?

Originally Posted by rydabent
And in my case as a life long mechanical and electronic tech, I base my decisions on cold logic.
If this was true, you would have not said the dumb things above.

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