[Neikius]

Fully agree with what you are saying.

I do have some beef with the prices of these electronic gadgets in the car. 300€ price for a new sensor or something similar? Sensor costs are usually a single digit or below. Somehow vendors found a way to inflate that price and this is destroying the repairability.

[BanterTrouble]

With the prices of sensors, I was astonished and I thought the garage was having me on. I looked up the prices online and the garage weren't taking the mickey (it was withing 10-15% of what they quoted me).

[reliabilityguy]

Car manufactures make probably more money on parts than selling new cars

[throwaway173738]

They do. But they make even more on interest from financing. And interest depends on the price you pay, so cheap cars cut into their profits.