Re: AMD weighs in on HD versus 4K

On 30/05/2025 18:58, Zaghadka wrote:

I prefer manual transmissions. Better gas mileage, better experience. I
just don't like the price of replacing the clutch every ~90k miles.
 

Where I live (and the journeys we do) there's a lot of stopping, slowing down and speeding up and not so much driving at a constant speed.

Automatics reliably go into the 100s of thousands of miles now. My last
car went 160k on its CVT and it didn't bat an eyelash. We sold it for an
upgrade, but it was still completely servicable.

Our old one got to about 50k which is very low mileage for a car that was almost twenty years old and 20k of them weren't even us. The problem was there was a strange fault with charging the battery. So you could drive for about fifteen mins. with no problems and then the battery not charging light would come on every five seconds or so. It also never failed to start so it was charging. We spent £350 having it looked at (our local garage and also the main dealer). Both of them said the same thing, it's probably the alternator but they weren't sure. The issue was it's £600 to get it replaced and it was a case of even if it does fix it, is it going to become a money pit.