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Here you are forced by law to get your car serviced periodically. Mechanics are known to try to rip you off every time.
Plus, I could easily raise the counter argument that if I spend thousands on a machine, it better be reliable without needing to get serviced all the time
I'm going to guess by here you mean Scotland (given your username). An MOT (annual inspection) is not a service. The inspection is just to ensure the car is road worthy. Oil and filter changes, for example, are not a part of it.
It's not Scotland, I Just use that username.
I think the oil change is not part of the inspection here either. If the oil change was that important, it would be required to be roadworthy. Like working brakes and safe tires. If it is not that important... Then it's not important
I do live in Scotland. And yeah, MOT just shows the vehicle is legally compliant. Could pass MOT and blow a piston the next day because it's not had any oil put in for 10 years.
So I guess you never wash your expensive clothes? A vehicle is essentially a tool. And if a tool doesn't get upkeep every once in awhile then it's going to break. Why would anyone spend some people's annual income on a tool and not treat it with care and give it proper upkeep so it lasts long enough to be worth spending that much money on?
I have a single piece of expensive clothes. I have never washed it because I wore it only once for my graduation.
Plus, washing isn't servicing. It's just washing. I would also wash my car, sometimes.
Treating with care is also not servicing. If I haven't broken it, and it needs servicing, then it broke by itself. If it broke by itself, then it's a scam and has no business being expensive, I will have to pay for repairing it anyway.
Btw, comparing clothes to a car is a false analogy because they don't cost nearly as much. And before you bring up some stupid expensive designer outfits, I refuse to acknowledge them as clothes, they are just shiny gimmicks for rich assholes
It's true clothes are not a good analogy.
Machines that operate at high rpm are in a category of their own, and a car is probably the only one most people ever own. There are metal parts inside separated by fractions of a mm, moving past each other at like 30-40 mph, back and forth like 100 times a second. It heavily depends on good lubricating oil to prevent heat from friction building up and wrecking the whole thing.
And the oil is a consumable, it degrades as it does its job, and needs replacing every now and again. It's not part of the MOT inspection because it isn't a risk to other road users, just damaging your expensive bit of kit (and wasting the environmental cost of the energy and materials that went into manufacturing it in the first place).
If a car breaks on the road it's a danger to road users, this is just a fact. If it's really that important it should be part of MOT. As simple as that.
If it's not that important, then you should not get over people's asses for that.
True, but breaking by not being able to speed up is less catastrophic than breaking by not being able to slow down, or not being able to turn.
Probably the most likely failure mode from old oil would be seizing up when the engine's cold, so it just won't start next time.
But you do you, I'm just saying they're designed with oil changes in mind, and if you do that one basic bit of maintenance it'll save you money in the long run....