Too Simple To Figure Out Dept...!?!
The more smart or automatic an appliance becomes the more time and money you'll spend trying to make it work. Net result: You lose time and you lose a ton of money. Great for technician's income...
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free radical wrote:BB_TX wrote:
Yeah, like cars and trucks. In “the old days” if your car developed a miss you spent a few dollars and an hour changing the points and plugs. And you could sit on the fender with your feet inside the engine compartment while doing it.
Now you need a computerized diagnostic analyzer to quiz the vehicle computer for idas about what might be the problem and what might be the fix. And when you open the hood you might be able to see part of the actual engine.
Still new cars are better..
My 08 Silverado starts at -30 on first click without even using block heater.
And 100 $ code reader tells you exactly whats wrong if anything..
My biggest repair in all these years was 150$ air bag sensor..
Concerning a $100 code reader telling exactly what's wrong if anything: Our daily driver sedan has now been in our well known and respected dealer's shop for around 10 days because the engine check light came on. They haven't been able (yet) to tell what caused it so as to repair what caused the light to come on.
P.S. The Joe Blow auto repair facility I take my good old 1995 GMC truck to has no trouble diagnosing and fixing anything on it in a day ... or at most two days if they're really busy. So much for "still new cars are better".
