What are some parts that wear down with time regardless of the amount of miles driven?
>>15383986
everything rubber
shocks
Belts, gaskets, seals, greased parts, anything in contact with coolant, various interior surfaces, would be a shorter list of things that don't wear down with time.
>>15383990
This
Also;
>softer plastics (like electric insulation) can start drying and cracking
>AC gas will leak out eventually
>battery will get old
>any fluid will become too old
>>15383986
Just everything.
>>15384203
Not if you maintain your car
Is there a penetrating oil that keeps rubber from rotting out?
>>15383986
Literally everything.
There's a reason only complete retards buy cars with pathetically low mileage.
1,000kms a year keeps the car so much healthier than sitting there, it's incredible.
>>15385035
Wouldn't low miles imply that not much wear has taken place to begin with? I don't see the issue with that
>>15385039
No, low miles means it's been sitting for half of its life.
How do you think taxis hit 1,000,000kms all the time?
Sitting for an extended period of time destroys cars.
>>15385039
did you not understand the thread?
>>15385035
How will the body and frame wear out if you don't let them rust?
>>15385093
>don't let them rust
You don't have a say in the matter, nigger. Unless you live in the middle of the desert and respray the entire car+frame, stripping it down completely, once a year, it'll have rust set in.
>>15384010
Pretty much what this says.
Wire insulation dries up and cracks and you get fucking shorts everywhere too. Gas tanks fuckin eat the dust, leather, springs rust and bolts and brakes seize up.
>>15385093
welds crack over time, metal deforms also >>15385104
>>15383986
Everything on the car.
>>15383986
unless it's stored in some deoxygenated dark room at whatever particular temperature suits all the various material properties then everything, even if the degradation is miniscule.
actually, even if it stored like that. entropy and all that
>>15383986
Go park your car deep in the woods and don't come back for 25 years. You'll have your answer :^)
What if I store the car in a giant vat of cosmoline?
>>15383986
>What are some parts that wear down with time regardless of the amount of miles driven?
The classic are the seals in the car if it is not run for awhile and then physically moved to a new spot. All places with seals will have the seal deform to the position of that metal part sitting still in the same position for long periods of time. If the part sits still long enough, the seal eventually changes shape to that position. So when the part starts to move again, the deformed shape might not seal properly and now fluids begin to leak around that seal.
Tires oxidize with time even in the shade. Of course, in bright high-UV sunlight (like arizona summers) it will oxidize faster and a lot of times you can see that "sunburned" look.on the surface of a tire in a desert climate. Eventually, oxidized or sunburned tires start to develop cracks. Over time the cracks get deeper and wider and now you got an "Uh Oh the end is coming" feeling. Remember, don't buy tires with micro cracks in them.
>>15385093
>How will the body and frame wear out if you don't let them rust?
The engine will rust inside due to the coolant not circulating to restore levels of the active anti-rust ingredient used up in certain more-chemically active locations.
