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barry12345 · #31 03-25-2019, 08:06 PM

Too many models and brands are being marketed today. Yet I fail to see how so much competition is really helping the buyer.

Prices on almost everything are rising. Including cars. I see this as a partial result of easy credit. If that ever stops will prove quite interesting.

Residential sales have almost collapsed since the first of January in Canada. The buyer has to have 20 percent down and pass a financial stress test now. I think they also have to prove the source of the twenty percent and it cannot be a second mortgage. With so few buyers it at last should bring the prices down a little.

A subject that comes up all too frequently locally. Is where is all this going?

Zulfiqar · #32 03-26-2019, 11:46 AM

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Originally Posted by vwnate1

Fair enough ~ I'm a Journeyman Mechanic yes, but I stopped working on new vehicles in about 1986 .

My son came of age during the 1990's and told me that Hondas from the 1980's on were well designed to be serviced ~ apparently they were "modular) to ease assembly and so doing a clutch job on a FWD Honda car was dead simple, as easy as my old air cooled VW's .

He's not impressed by current Hondas one bit .

When I was an Indie Pug Mechanic they were still pretty simple even though they like all French cars, were *very* different .

Making the fuse box access hole smaller, that's silly and you're right, they deserve to be chided .

Of course, it may well turn out that "simply"

disconnecting all the wires allows you to turn it so it *barely* slips out the opening.....

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Older Hondas were quite nice to drive and easier to service too. New ones are the usual "look pretty and stylish" - e.g. the Honda Pilot SUV oil fill cap actually is tucked under the front radiator support, You need to make a funnel with a hose to fill it. (Honda designers probably had a library fire I think where they lost all the building code books)

The fuse box deal is true - the hole to remove the fuses is smaller than the entire tray of fuses. Similar in the Fiat/Chrysler Dart/200 cars where the little extra fuse box for the autowipers is tucked by the front defrost vents and the designer assumed that octopus or squid were going to be doing fuse pulling.

vwnate1 · #33 03-26-2019, 08:51 PM

Would need to be in a different forum on this site and those who refuse to learn from History will of course lie and attack those who understand the truth .

" A subject that comes up all too frequently locally. Is where is all this going? " .