Car related rant - #5
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Transmission goes out $3K. Car value $3K. Well it is in (I thought) good condition, so put the new transmission in. Two weeks later the check engine light comes on and it starts to surge at around 40 MPH. :mad: So I am told it will be $3K to fix. Elephant, elephant, elephant! Not going to fix it, but still have at least a year to pay on my pickup truck. So drive the truck and only drive the car when I have to. :(( I really do not like to drive the truck in town as my spatial perception is not the best. Hope to get something early next year, but in the mean time...
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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Transmission goes out $3K. Car value $3K. Well it is in (I thought) good condition, so put the new transmission in. Two weeks later the check engine light comes on and it starts to surge at around 40 MPH. :mad: So I am told it will be $3K to fix. Elephant, elephant, elephant! Not going to fix it, but still have at least a year to pay on my pickup truck. So drive the truck and only drive the car when I have to. :(( I really do not like to drive the truck in town as my spatial perception is not the best. Hope to get something early next year, but in the mean time...
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
Corporal Agarn wrote:
Two weeks later the check engine light comes on and it starts to surge at around 40 MPH. :mad: So I am told it will be $3K to fix.
See, that's the real problem with modern cars. You need a computer technician to diagnose the problem, and special tools and knowledge to make repairs. I predict that we've seen the end of the "classic car" because after 5-10 years they stop making repair parts available, the most important of which are the myriad of computers that control the car. I'm seeing it happen with Mustangs made in the 80's. The computers are starting to fail, and if you can find one, they're expensive as hell. I am of the opinion that the manufacturers are doing this intentionally to get you to have to buy a new car every 5-10 years.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013 -
Corporal Agarn wrote:
Two weeks later the check engine light comes on and it starts to surge at around 40 MPH. :mad: So I am told it will be $3K to fix.
See, that's the real problem with modern cars. You need a computer technician to diagnose the problem, and special tools and knowledge to make repairs. I predict that we've seen the end of the "classic car" because after 5-10 years they stop making repair parts available, the most important of which are the myriad of computers that control the car. I'm seeing it happen with Mustangs made in the 80's. The computers are starting to fail, and if you can find one, they're expensive as hell. I am of the opinion that the manufacturers are doing this intentionally to get you to have to buy a new car every 5-10 years.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013How did you know it was a 2008? :-D When Ford made the Model T anyone could fix the car. No facts to back this up, but it seems the cars are made cheaply (bad ignition switches, bad emissions) so they can sell you a new car in a few years.
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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How did you know it was a 2008? :-D When Ford made the Model T anyone could fix the car. No facts to back this up, but it seems the cars are made cheaply (bad ignition switches, bad emissions) so they can sell you a new car in a few years.
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
Corporal Agarn wrote:
Model T
Speaking of bad emissions... :laugh:
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Corporal Agarn wrote:
Model T
Speaking of bad emissions... :laugh:
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
Better than the horse it replaced: In 1894, the Times of London estimated that by 1950 every street in the city would be buried nine feet deep in horse manure. One New York prognosticator of the 1890s concluded that by 1930 the horse droppings would rise to Manhattan’s third-story windows. http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Great-Horse-Manure-Crisis-of-1894/[^]
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Corporal Agarn wrote:
Two weeks later the check engine light comes on and it starts to surge at around 40 MPH. :mad: So I am told it will be $3K to fix.
See, that's the real problem with modern cars. You need a computer technician to diagnose the problem, and special tools and knowledge to make repairs. I predict that we've seen the end of the "classic car" because after 5-10 years they stop making repair parts available, the most important of which are the myriad of computers that control the car. I'm seeing it happen with Mustangs made in the 80's. The computers are starting to fail, and if you can find one, they're expensive as hell. I am of the opinion that the manufacturers are doing this intentionally to get you to have to buy a new car every 5-10 years.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
I am of the opinion that the manufacturers are doing this intentionally to get you to have to buy a new car every 5-10 years
Yep, some sort of planned obsolescence. Not just force us (well, not me, as I don't have a car), to buy a new car, but for all the support line to buy new diagnostic tools for each car manufacturers and car models.
I'd rather be phishing!
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How did you know it was a 2008? :-D When Ford made the Model T anyone could fix the car. No facts to back this up, but it seems the cars are made cheaply (bad ignition switches, bad emissions) so they can sell you a new car in a few years.
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
The 2CV could be completely stripped down with a cresent wrench! French Cars who knows if it was a feature!! :)
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The 2CV could be completely stripped down with a cresent wrench! French Cars who knows if it was a feature!! :)
glennPattonBackInThePUB wrote:
The 2CV could be completely stripped down with a cresent wrench!
That's because the manufacturer knew that if it was much more complex than that, the French would just give up trying to fix it.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013 -
glennPattonBackInThePUB wrote:
The 2CV could be completely stripped down with a cresent wrench!
That's because the manufacturer knew that if it was much more complex than that, the French would just give up trying to fix it.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013My experience with later Citrons (odd connection to Lemons) have proved that point! :)
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Corporal Agarn wrote:
Two weeks later the check engine light comes on and it starts to surge at around 40 MPH. :mad: So I am told it will be $3K to fix.
See, that's the real problem with modern cars. You need a computer technician to diagnose the problem, and special tools and knowledge to make repairs. I predict that we've seen the end of the "classic car" because after 5-10 years they stop making repair parts available, the most important of which are the myriad of computers that control the car. I'm seeing it happen with Mustangs made in the 80's. The computers are starting to fail, and if you can find one, they're expensive as hell. I am of the opinion that the manufacturers are doing this intentionally to get you to have to buy a new car every 5-10 years.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
See, that's the real problem with modern cars. You need a computer technician to diagnose the problem, and special tools
Fiat ECU Scan (hacked version) off the net and a $10 cable to diagnose my alfa. And US/Jap cars diagnostic SW is freely available I have heard.
