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Talking to my dad about carburetors made me miss the old days
He was showing me his '78 Ford's engine and said, 'You could fix this with a screwdriver and a prayer.' Now I'm staring at a laptop to change a thermostat. Anyone else feel like we're more computer techs than mechanics sometimes?
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grant90111d agoTop Commenter
Totally get that. It feels like half the battle now is just talking to the car through a scanner. You're not even fixing the part, you're just resetting the computer that told the part to break.
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charlesb4212d ago
That '78 Ford comment hits home. My uncle's old Chevy had points and condenser you could actually see and adjust. When you diagnose a modern car, what percentage of the job is just figuring out which computer module is throwing the bad data?
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