De-Chipped my 7.3
I was having problems with my TS 6 Position performance chip for my 7.3 in that it wasn't starting about 60 percent of the time. I would have to cycle the keys before the chip would successfully work ...
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Kayteg1 wrote:
I have mixed feeling about new technology.
When I like new engines for way better performance (my 4-banger 2.1 l diesel has the same power what famous Cheby 454 (7.4l)from 1980's), manufacturers are playing hard ball with DIY owners.
I had Ox sensor failed. Not only local dealer wants $580+ tax for sensor ($320 on the net) but software require new sensor coding/adaptation and that is possible only with brand scanners and internet subscription.
So even I DIY sensor replacement I have to take the car to dealer and pay them min $150 for few minutes on keyboard.
To top it the car software gave me 10 start-ups to fix the issue or the car becomes a brick.
Good thing the count activates at speed and I could roll the car around the garage without loosing the number.
Bottom line, aren't we talking conspiracy theory?
It is sad to say but what you have described is what happens when the bean counting pinheads with MBA degrees take over the corporate world. It's the razor and blade business model just scaled up. It is sad that as a society, we have bought into the lie that to be successful, one must go to college. The trades unfortunately are taking a beating and with that the skills, tribal knowledge, "brotherhood" of fellow craftsmen and independence such skills make.
Back in day's of old when men where men and settled disputes with swords, who was the safest person on the battlefield? I'd argue the blacksmith... It's easy to find someone willing to stick the pointy thing in your enemy, those guys are a dime a dozen but to find someone who knows how to make the pointy thing? It takes years to make a blacksmith...
Yes, it's a bit of a stretch on the analogy but more to the point, there is a movement called the "Right to Repair" movement that is attempting to enact legislation that will require manufacturers to allow their products to be serviced by owners. This in part is a result of all companies good and wholesome in America, John Deere that started bricking tractors when Farmers tried to field repair them (like Farmers for generations have done for decades). It's one thing to endure highway robbery just to purchase the part that a bean counter determined should fail just months outside it's warranty period but it's another to have spend hundreds of dollars to pay the John Deere "repair guy" to come out and hook up his computer to the tractor and push a couple of buttons so the part now works with the tractor.
When the zombie apocalypse begins, I nominate MBAs to be second in line after lawyer's to be pushed out of camp to fend for themselves. Payback for all their greed that society was forced to pay for...
Yes, said with a bit of dry irony and it's only 2pm and I haven't had a drink yet... Now get off my lawn!!!
