pfarrell;490922 Wrote: > Howard Passman wrote:[color=blue] > > Yep, and automobiles are not that far behind. I had a car that was > totalled because the headlights burned out. The replacement HID units > were $1000 each, two were the list price of a Transporter. Since the > car > was seven year old, as much as I loved it, it was not cost effective > to > fix the headlights. > > > -- > Pat Farrell > http://www.pfarrell.com/
The auto industry should be interesting in the next few years, but there are federal laws in the U.S. regarding how long parts availability must be. Even when GM dumps Saab, if no one buys it, then GM must make parts available. Of course they are expensive as all get out, but we keep asking for all of this junk. We have a BMW franchise and we can't buy cars, sell cars, sell parts, diagnose cars or write repair orders without Internet connectivity. Can't even put a CD player in without doing hours of programming. Progress.... If you've got the money to replace these things at a regular rate then God bless you. I'm betting you don't have college age kids with tuition much higher than your morgage. You just may be smater than I am if you don't :-) Howard -- Howard Passman Can I go home now? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Howard Passman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16674 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71997 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
