I have been shocked to see how much gets taken apart to service modern automobiles. You walk in the shop in a dealership these days and see dashboards out on the bench and engines and transmissions out on stands just for routine maintenance. The doomsayers overdid the whole computerized car scenario back in the 80s by saying it would be impossible for home mechanics to fix them but these cars today with all of the easy chair gizmos and gadgets look like a nightmare.

Still I wish the clunkers program hadn't been a scam, I was going to buy a new one until they jacked up all of the prices and pissed me off.

I don't work on cars too much anymore, that is the upside, they don't need much work anymore. Drive less, pay less, work less. There still isn't time in a lifetime to do everything there is to do, screw the plan.