Car Life Cycle

A car is a complex and recoverable technical product of durable use (years, tens of thousands of kilometers), during which:

1) the car can be in different states:

- work, i.e. carry passengers or cargo;

- to stand idle in anticipation of work;

- be in good or bad condition;

- to pass into the ownership of different owners, etc.

2) the car can be the object of various influences (works):

- assembly and testing during production;

- pre-sale preparation;

- sale or resale;

- refueling;

- storage;

- modernization and tuning;

- maintenance (TO), repair, etc.

The states and impacts mentioned above form the life cycle stages of vehicles.

Usually distinguished:

1) the life cycle of a particular car model (LCM);

2) the life cycle of a particular vehicle (VCA):

- having a certain identification number (VIN);

- received by the owner at a certain point in time (year, month, day);

3) if the duration of the life cycle of the model is calculated from the beginning of its design, then the cycle is called complete.

The actual use of cars of this model begins from the moment it starts production or enters the automotive market. In this case, the LCM is called large or operational. The LCM ends with the cessation of production of this model and the withdrawal of vehicles from service or to a landfill. The duration of a large LCM is 10-30 years.

4) the life cycle of a particular car is called small:

a) begins with the purchase of a car by a legal or natural person;

b) ends with write-off - decommissioning of the vehicle;

c) the duration of the small cycle is determined by the service life (resource) of the car before being written off to a car dump (for example, at Car Junkyards Louisiana) and is, depending on the design and operating conditions, from 5 to 15 - 20 years.

In general, the stages of the LCM are presented in the following form:

1. Design; 2. Tests; 3. Production; 4. Acquisition by the owner; 5. Storage; 6. Washing, cleaning, sanitation; 7. Refueling; 8. Transportation; 9. Maintenance of working capacity (maintenance); 10. Restoration of working capacity (repair); 11. State technical inspection; 12. Termination of production of this model; 13. Decommissioning of the model (car) from service; 14. Dismantling and disposal of the car; 15. Recycling - recycling of materials.

Conclusions from this article:

• The car goes from the assembly line to the dump.

• A car gets cheaper with wear, age and mileage.

• It is possible to buy a car that still has a resource, but the price of it has already fallen and you will operate it as cheaply as possible.