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Old 12-14-2017, 11:50 PM
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Originally Posted by luke strawwalker
Too bad car and truck manufacturers haven't learned that lesson... nowdays they make things as DIFFICULT to repair as possible... just to increase the amount they can charge at the dealer shops...

When Ford is building pickups that you have to REMOVE THE CAB to do engine service, it's gotten to the point of being ridiculous...

Later! OL J R
Volvo cars have long been that way (although not to the extent that you've had to deal with); a large chunk of the repair bills for a friend's 1985 sedan is for labor that's required to partially disassemble large portions of it, just to get access to worn-out parts. I'm reminded of G. Harry Stine's remarks in "Halfway to Anywhere: Achieving America's Destiny in Space" (about the DC-X, and SSTO spaceships in general) that he'd noticed that younger engineers, because they design things on two-dimensional computer screens, lack skill in thinking in *three* dimensions (which designing-in inspection ports and doors requires).
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