Why is it considered that after 100 km the car needs to be sold
After 100, the car must be sold, otherwise there will be no problems! Who exactly launched this "folk wisdom" into the driver's environment is already unknown. We decided to find out if this is really so?
All the same, there is some magic in this turn of the life of a car - 100 kilometers! From this point of view, it is not surprising that the confidence that exists among car owners in the inevitable onset of a certain period is “tied” to it, after which the car necessarily turns into trash on wheels. Therefore, you need to have time to get rid of the car before the onset of this “X-hour”. In fact, linking exactly the 000th mileage with a critical moment in a car's resource is both right and wrong. Here it should be remembered that, as a rule, many cars are closer to a mileage of 100 km. the automaker provides for costly maintenance. For example, the replacement of timing drives, the replacement of fluid in the automatic transmission, the replacement of many consumables in the suspension, wheel drives, and other rather expensive work.
Especially if they are produced in the service center of an official dealer at the crazy prices there! This subtlety in car maintenance has been known for a long time. Therefore, “cunning” car owners, in order not to spend money on expensive maintenance, try to sell their cars earlier and, thereby, transfer repair problems and the costs associated with them to the new owner of the car. Added life to this belief and the marketing policy of some automakers. In recent years, a number of brands trading in Russia have set the warranty period for their cars at five years or 100 km. run. Naturally, upon reaching these numbers on the odometer, the owner of such a car will try to sell it immediately.
You never know what can break in it, and when the warranty is no longer valid, not everyone wants to repair breakdowns at their own expense. But the more modern the model of the car, the more technologically advanced its design, the less true is the “sign of 100 mileage”. The latest technology and the ever-increasing dominance of electronics are rapidly reducing the real reliability of modern cars. For an automaker, the main thing when creating a car is that it leaves the warranty period with a minimum number of claims from the owner, and then at least crumble. And the faster she does this, the faster her owner will come to the car dealership for a new car. That is, the reliability of a car for them is the tenth thing.
Meanwhile, for the same BMW for the Russian market, the warranty period is such that the average owner drives no more than 50 km during it. run. It turns out that Bavarian cars turn into trash not after 000 km, but much earlier? The entire global auto industry is following the path of a wholesale reduction in the volume of engines down to one liter and is switching to robotic transmissions. It's no secret that these "robots" often do not even live up to the end of the factory warranty, not to mention the 100th run. Thus, the statement that a car after 000 km of run is rubbish and needs to be sold is outdated. For many of today's cars, this bar can be safely lowered to 100 or even 100 kilometers.
