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Old 09-08-2015, 02:56 PM   #24 (permalink)
jamesqf
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Originally Posted by spacemanspif View Post
...but no mention of vehicles being more complicated just to keep people coming back to dealers for service work.
Couple of questionable assumptions there. First, I haven't found new* cars to be more complicated than old ones. I'm sure glad I'll never have to try to tune a carb again (let alone multiple carb setups), adjust distributor points, &c. And 10K mile oil changes beat the 2500 mile ones.

Second point, which follows from the first, is that a lot of the supposed complexity of newer cars actually goes to reduce service work. If newer cars go back to the dealer more often than those of past years, it's because of laws which require the dealers to do certain things. Who'd ever heard of a manufacturer recalling vehicles, 50 years ago?




*Though understand that my definition of "new" means anything with electronic fuel injection and engine management.
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