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Just realized I've been signing off the same type of hydraulic line leak for 15 years now.
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umabailey1mo ago
Sometimes the fix costs more than just dealing with the occasional leak.
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paulhernandez1mo ago
Exactly. It's a choice they make on paper. My old washing machine had a hose connector that would weep every few months. A fifty cent washer would have fixed it for good at the factory, but a service call for a slow drip was built into the business model. They know it will fail, and they've already priced out your annoyance.
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Man, that's wild. I read an article once about how common that exact problem is in certain industries. They called it a "recurring failure pattern" where the same small design flaw just keeps causing issues for years. It's not even about the parts wearing out, it's built wrong from the start. How does a company not fix something after seeing it fail for 15 straight years? Seems like they just budget for the leaks instead of fixing the root cause.
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