Which modern equipment will annoy us in the future
You probably don't think much about it when you buy a new car. Who thinks about whether all the things you can configure will have a negative impact on the car's future as a classic or even vintage car? We already suffer from unfortunate decisions made by the previous owners of our old cars from time to time.
There are certainly a whole range of options that we like to use in everyday life today, but which will almost certainly be worthless in the future. All the communication electronics, for example. If you buy a five-seater from the nineties today with a built-in telephone, you will hardly ever be able to bring it back to life. Even the famous ring antennas from back then are mostly useless today, but are only too happy to be snapped off in the car wash or by passers-by.
The air conditioning system seems more mundane. It is certainly practical today and in the future. However, air conditioning systems in particular require a fair amount of maintenance if they are to function properly. This is where the idea of leaving them out or shutting them down in the event of major interventions in the mechanics comes into play. But woe betide the car manufacturer who has reckoned with their presence! I was recently told that a Jaguar no longer ran properly after the air conditioning system had been removed because vapor bubbles were forming. In its original state, the air conditioning had cooled the fuel supply at the same time.
But there are also much simpler things that can be annoying in the classic car of the future, e.g. the tinted windows. By law, the driver/passenger and front windows must be largely untinted, while the rear windows can be darkened considerably. What may make sense in terms of the temperature balance in the car rarely looks really good when viewed soberly (see picture above), especially when you look at the silhouette of the car.
And then there are the navigation devices, for which it will probably no longer be possible to obtain map material after just a few years and which may no longer work properly if the old CD/DVD is scratched or otherwise no longer readable. And we don't even want to talk about the future viability of cell phone applications for vehicle control, when even "apps" that are only a few months old often no longer work because the phone's operating system has run away from them, so to speak (updates).
Even audio systems can become useless if FM radio is actually discontinued and only DAB+ is broadcast, or if there are no longer any suitable memory cards and CD formats for the old devices.
And there can also be problems completely unrelated to electronics. Tire formats are no longer available, tire types such as run-flat brands or the former TRX dimensions are no longer available on the market and create new problems.
Yes, if you want to buy a really long-lasting new car, you have to think about a few things to avoid running into problems 30 years later ...
And I am sure that our readers will be able to name many more examples of things that could go wrong in the future.
