Backup camera fault disables entire vehicle: I'm impressed

[Ace-Garageguy]

39 minutes ago, sfhess said:

I don't understand why it is necessary for someone at a tire shop, dealership, car wash or whatever to adjust everything that can be adjusted so they can drive the car 50 yards or so.  In my experience, they are always much shorter (I'm 6-foot-one) than I am.

'Cause it's important to be comfortable while they sit there playing on the phone for 20 minutes.  

Edited January 15 by Ace-Garageguy
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[Falcon Ranchero]

Another check in the the box for classic cars; Simplicity. Cars today are too complicated.

[Ace-Garageguy]

23 minutes ago, Falcon Ranchero said:

Another check in the the box for classic cars; Simplicity. Cars today are too complicated.

Which, sadly, brings up the problem of finding anyone working on cars today (other than some of us old geezers) who has any clue about how a carburettor works, or how to even begin to diagnose a problem if there's nowhere to plug in a scan tool.

[Falcon Ranchero]

1 hour ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

Which, sadly, brings up the problem of finding anyone working on cars today (other than some of us old geezers) who has any clue about how a carburettor works, or how to even begin to diagnose a problem if there's nowhere to plug in a scan tool.

Yeah I was gonna say, it seems like back in the day dudes worked on cars like it was goin' outta style (which with new cars it kinda did). Like they did it to soup it up and make the car run faster, i.e. drag racing, or even just customizing for the street machine scene. Nothing like that today except for the VW golfs around here with the pop can exhaust. Even hot rods for example, no one hops up their grandma's 2007 Kia Spectra like they would a '31 Ford back in the day.

For instance, my other Great uncle's '31. Not his anymore but still here. Built in '60-'62, sold in '65, dormant in garage since '70, brought out over ten years ago, kept original and still shows what kids did back in the day. Kinda hard to do stuff like that with the newer cars, because of how mechanically complex every single car is today.

 

[johnyrotten]

Everything stated above is why my current truck(2012) will be the newest vehicle I own. Period. I do all my own work, I've got the skills to do so, the added complexity just isn't worth the headache for me. Bad enough the heads have to come off if the afm/dod decides to kill a lifter and eat the cam. I've owned all manor of vehicles, from classic hammer simple buicks to a "big turbo" 1.8t gti. If you want a good laugh, look up "coolant migration". When simple issues turn into multi-system failures and a dash that looks Christmas tree, I lose interest. A "simple" radiator replacement in my wife's jetta requires removing whole nose of the car, or as v.w. states "place the lock carrier in the service position". 20 minute job in anything from the 60's to the 80's now takes half a day. And a laptop.