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Hopefully, they'll be looking at early-2000s engines and wondering why there isn't an electric motor there instead!
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There are tons of cars that are simple to work on with a manual. The 04 explorer I am tearing apart is a mess of sensors, wires and tubes but ultimately it's still an internal combustion engine. It takes more patience to label all the wires and stuff, but really it isn't too much different. I have installed suspension components on brand new VWs, brakes, brake lines, exhaust and intake on the bmw, etc. there's a ton of stuff to do. The other mentality is that antique cars are the best kind of father son projects!
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And I have even had people ask me what the big compressor thing is on the front of some 1939 Packard engines. I tell them it is the A/C compressor, the first of its' kind. It looks like the sort of thing you would see on an air-braked truck from the sixties. |
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Still a lot basic hand tools can handle with a manual.
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Some (most?) cars still have the oil filter at the bottom, making a mess each time it's replaced.
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From "The more things change dept. "
model T Fords had no dipstick, either. They had 2 peacocks. If you opened the lower peacock and no oil ran out, you added oil until it ran out of the upper petcock.
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It's all a matter of harrumphing vs adaptation. Before you'd have to tune a couple side draft carbs, now it's programming a mega squirt. 6 of one half dozen of the other.
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I will never understand with all the technology on cars (and wireless TPMS sensors and stuff like that) why we don't have a few simple idiot lights.
They don't even need to be separate lights.. all cars have LCD or other types of screens. They should be BIG red warnings like the "ABC STOP CAR TOO LOW" warning that flashes up in red on ABC equipped MB's. The warnings (and their associated causes) should be: STOP CAR NOW AND TOW -Very low or no oil pressure - leak in oil pan about to cause engine death -Sudden drop in coolant pressure (most cars have a sensor, so why can't it watch for drops?) - covers radiator failure, burst hoses, etc. STOP CAR AS SOON AS POSSIBLE -Alternator stopped charging even though engine is running at least ___ RPM. Alternator has died and you're about to get stranded -Overheating (red zone on coolant gauge) - about to cook a head gasket -Transmission fluid really low or no pressure found - must be a leak in transmission or cooler and transmission is about to burn up. -No power steering pressure - leak about to cause a PS system failure or run the pump dry My fridge warns me with a beep every 30 seconds if the fridge or freezer door was left open or not completely closed. Cost of implementing this is probably $0.01 per fridge when you spread the cost out over the number of fridges built. Doesn't anyone want a 'car that saves you $5k by warning you ahead of time'?
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Do you want lcds or do you want idiot lights? I'm not sure what to make of this post...most cars display warnings so I have no idea what you are getting at.
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Yeah, exactly my feeling on the error code.
It should be federal mandate to show any OBDII codes on the display screen somewhere in the car. I am sure if people got a 'gas cap loose' code they'd save a lot of money by not going to the dealer! I suspect manufacturers don't want to tell us something is wrong (or what is wrong when it has broken) so we have to rely on their dealer network for parts/service. Manuals for my appliances are easily found on the manufacturers website.. I installed my dryer electrical and vent while reading the PDF on a tablet when I needed to look up sizes/amps/etc. And all of the dryer vents fit all of the dryers... there is no specific LG dryer vent for each model of dryer they make... it's all 4". Why does every manufacturer need to stock 20 different coolant temperature sensors, multipled by lots of manufacturer there are hundreds of devices that do the same thing. Yet all turn signals on every car produced run on a handful of different bulb model #'s. If you stock 25 bulbs you can probably fix most turn signals that come rolling into a shop. Yet you'd have to stock hundreds and hundreds of coolant sensors. Just seems like a lot of waste/profit/markup....
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