Quick note for anyone reading this: basically every EV has a nice long 8/100k or better battery warranty. It’s nice of Hyundai to throw another two years on there, but it’s also very tough to build a battery that will hold up for 8 years and then not make it to 10.

Asperger’s doesn’t explain boosting anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, or calling yourself a ‘free speech absolutionist’ then complaining that people don’t want to do business with your Nazi bar.

Tire rotations can range from important to utterly pointless to impossible (when the car doesn’t have the same sizes front and back). What makes them not that useful is that rotations don’t really change the amount of wear the car puts on the the tires, just the distribution of it.

It’s safer to have the more worn tires on the front, by quite a bit. I used to have a car that burned through front tires pretty hard. That didn’t lead me to rotate more often, though. Rather it made me replace the front tires twice as often as the rears. Rotating would have evened the replacement out, but then I would have ended up spending more time with the tread depth in the rear at a lower average depth. In aggregate, it would have been less safe to rotate the tires instead of just replacing the fronts more often.

I’m not saying C4C was a great program - it was kind of a crappy stimulus - but how do you figure either of those things? Most of what was traded in was pretty run of the mill 90s cars.

1. 1995-2003 Ford Explorer/Mercury Mountaineer: 46,676
2. 1996-2000 Chrysler/Dodge/Plymouth minivans: 23,998
3. 1993-1998 Jeep Grand Cherokee: 20,844
4. 1992-1997 Ford F-150: 20,222
5. 1984-2001 Jeep Cherokee: 18,329
6. 1988-2002 GM C/K pickup: 17,202
7. 1995-2005 Chevrolet Blazer: 15,668
8. 1999-2003 Ford Windstar: 12,157
9. 1991-1994 Ford Explorer: 11,612
10. 1994-2001 Dodge Ram 1500: 8,103

That list is almost one in three of the Clunkered cars. Many of them were 10-15 years old. And at the same time new car sales were absolutely bombing so there were millions of cars not being made. The under 700k cars from C4C didn’t have the same impact on used prices as the millions of cars we didn’t make 15 years ago which would now be at the bottom end of the used market.