is there a way to automaticaly lock a thread that is say 1 year old?
or would you have to do it manually? (i'd volunteer to manually lock them if you need someone to do it)

i bring this up so that we might curb this trend of bumping 5-7 year old threads.

then if you absolutly have pertenent or valuable updated information (transmission fluid thread comes to mind) then you can page a mod and explain to them the info so it can get bumped and updated.