Modifying a vehicle by installing a facelift bodykit can effect its overall life cycle. According to AAA https://magazine.northeast.aaa.com/daily/life/cars-trucks/life-cycle-car-questions-answers/ a traditional life cycle of a vehicle has four main stages: Introduction, Growth, Maturity, and Decline.
Introduction
According to AAA, this stage take approximately 6 years and include designing the vehicle, where automakers look for what is missing, how they can create aggressive styling, new features that drivers want and what “firsts” they can introduce into the segment.
Growth
This stage includes completing tests, safety and emissions certification issuance and production, next it’s sold at a dealership.
Maturity
According to a report from research firm IHS Markit, the average age of a U.S. vehicle is 11.6 years. With proper maintenance the vehicle should last without any major repairs. LINK
Decline
According to AAA, auto recycling is the 16th largest industry in the U.S. Annually 12 million U.S. vehicles reach the end of their useful lives and 95% are recycled (sold to a junkyard, stripped for parts and then crushed and shredded).
Modification
Facelift Bodykits goal is to perform another Condensed Introduction stage at the end of the Maturity stage, in order to extend the overall life cycle of the vehicle by approximately 6 years before the vehicle reaches the Decline Stage. According to AAA, vehicles are being built better than ever with improved technologies and fluids.
All vehicles are different and there are many variables that can determine the condition of a particular vehicle but members of our staff have personally owned used luxury vehicles around 15 years old and driven them with no maintenance issues.
The Maturity stage is extended by adding the new features and updating to the styling that the brand new vehicles have by retrofitting body parts to fit the used vehicles. Please see our article on the top 10 things that make a vehicle look outdated. Therefore, if used luxury vehicle owners perform preventative maintenance on their vehicles and update the features and styling of their vehicles it can result in a driving a vehicle that looks new for much less than an actual new vehicle.
Preservation
Another existing variation on the traditional life cycle stages of a vehicle is the classic car. What the classic car industry and owners do (in relation to the traditional life cycle) is slow the Maturity stage down, effectively deferring the decline stage indefinately. Either through abstaining from use (acquiring little to no mileage and keeping the vehicle protected from the weather), or restoring the vehicle by investing money into maintenance and repairs over time.
Vehicle Life Cycles
| Traditional Cycle |
Introduction
Design
6 Years | Growth Test, Safety, Certification | Maturity Use, Maintenance 12 Years | Decline Recycle |
| FaceLifted Cycle |
Introduction
Design
6 Years | Growth Test, Safety, Certification |
Maturity
Maturity
Use, Maintenance with FaceLift
Use, Maintenance
9 Years 9 Years | Decline Recycle |
| Classic Cycle |
Introduction
Design
6 Years | Growth Test, Safety, Certification |
Maturity
Use,
Maintenance,
Preservation,
Restoration
Indefinite Years |
Based on the information that the life cycles reveal, maintenance and preservation are obviously the two ways to keep a vehicle in working condition for the longest amount of time and to avoid costly repairs. While our company focuses on updating the aesthetics of luxury vehicles, we understand that the core function of vehicles is convenient transportation and if repair costs begin to exceed the cost of the vehicle then the purchase and the facelift modifications will not be worth making no matter how good the vehicle looks.
Please see our article on how to maintain and preserve luxury vehicles LINK
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