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I suspect the OP was making a historical analogy to the past experience of the ECU transition. The ECU transition was disruptive and caused pain for both mechan
by topkai22 5y ago
I suspect the OP was making a historical analogy to the past experience of the ECU transition. The ECU transition was disruptive and caused pain for both mechanics (who had to reskill) and consumers (who had to deal with a market full of mechanics who didn’t necessarily know what they were doing for a long time.)
- totalZero 5y agoI think this is an overly abstracted view of how transitions work. In reality, most trades are experiential-apprenticeship businesses, and technology advances slowly. For example, a 15-year-old car may run ignition with a distributor, while a newer one may have coil packs that receive signals from MOSFETs in the engine computer assembly. Fixing those two systems can be totally different despite the fact that both have engine control computers. Technological advance is not a step function and describing every transition as disruptive is not particularly meaningful even when it is true.
- PeterisP 5y agoI haven't really seen mechanics reskill, what local shops seem to do is to employ separate "electronics people" as another specialization - like they already had bodywork handled by separate people who do all the bodywork and nothing else; so now they have "classic mechanics" working on the mechanical parts (which, frankly, is most of the work) and whenever OBD shows something nontrivial they hand it off to someone who does nothing else but debugging ECUs and sensor/wiring issues.