On Jul 25, 2006, at 10:39 AM, Gonz wrote: > It sounds like thats where the disconnect is then. You worked on cars > before 1980, I worked on them past 1982 or so. lol. They *are* a > pain > in the butt now. I'm sure what you say about the pre '80 cars are > true.
Most likely ... but *all* cars are a pain in the butt to work on now. I haven't seen a single car, FWD, RWD, AWD or whatever, that I'd *want* to work on made since 1980. On the other hand, I haven't seen my service expenses rise precipitously either, other than by a factor similar to cost of living increases. Happily, most of the cars I've owned/driven made since 1980 require very little other than oil changes, tires and brakes unless abused. The MR2 ran 160,000 miles and 18 years with very little service cost, and the Land Rover I've been driving for 42000 miles has required only four regularly scheduled service appointments. Cars have overall become far more reliable and long lasting, in my opinion, than what we used to have to deal with despite the increased complexity. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
