>>10350823With ANY PLASTICS, you'll basically never know if they'll shit their pants one or 20 years from now, if it hasn't already been produced. A new pigment or paint might fuck up the entire structure. So even companies that charge premium prices can have problems, like Figmas and Revoltechs toys did.
Who knows if they even have chemists who actually test that shit, but it can happen even with companies who do have an entire department for chemists like Hasbro and Mattel. It takes about a year to do proper tests for longevity, so it's basically impossible to test for every variable. They still do a lot of tests though and know which pigments/other-chems were considered safe from before.
We saw Sony PS4 controllers and few other controllers starting to sweat in less than a year. Wide spread issues, but fixed for later releases. So maybe only the first hundred thousand/million units actually had the problem. The 5-100million units that came afterward had no issue (generalizing here).
Still, it's a bit more rare with controllers/remotes/panels/switches, including car, because they generally keep on producing the same shit across 2-10 years. Tons of reuse, in the same colors, in the millions, so there's less that can go wrong. Whereas toy makers release dozens and even hundreds of different toys every quarter in hundreds of different colors.
Anyway, most plastics have a documented history. 99% of companies avoids shit plastics and other known problems, because they don't want to piss of their consumer base. This means the plastics are generally going to hold up for decades, under various conditions.
It's not like car makers are inventing new plastics all the time just to use on the brand new 2023 XXX model. Nevermind any new plastics they do invent can only be patented for like 15 years, so anyone can use them afterward (if they don't already sell it). Most plastics invented over a century ago are still some of the best you can use today.
