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Re: The good old days - a few years ago Posted by Bill Homer [Email] (#3427) [Profile/Gallery] (more from Bill Homer) on Sun, 31 Jan 2010 11:58:08 In Reply to: Re: The good old days, rico567, Sun, 31 Jan 2010 10:08:13 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
I'm old enough to have experience setting point dwell and timing (my dwell meter and timing light are in a box in the basement), and to me the golden age of car durability was some time in the 1980s - 1990s, when cars were mechanically sorted out but before they were loaded with impossible-to-fix computerized modules for all sorts of unnecessary things. Example, my brother's 1993 BMW is mechanically fine, but a non-repairable ABS module often throttles down the car as a form of Traction Control. The usual module rebuilders will not touch this one as it has a custom chip, replacement is a $1300 module at the dealer, plus a $300 "marriage" to the ECU, no guarantees that this will fix the problem. That's about what the car is worth.
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