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> Might be more expensive, but swapping out the broken module the OBD reader told you to swap is probably not going to be that hard. Where are you going to get
by jjav 5y ago
> Might be more expensive, but swapping out the broken module the OBD reader told you to swap is probably not going to be that hard.
Where are you going to get that replacement module (which is entirely proprietary) after the dealer is no longer selling them?
When the throttle cable on my 1950s car snaps I can simply get a new cable from a thousand places. A cable is a cable.
A hundred years from now, I confidently bet that there will be a lot more still-running cars from the 1950s-1990s than any newer ones because the newer ones become quickly impossible to fix as soon as the factory and dealer stop carrying those model-specific propietary parts.
- yardie 5y agoThe old cars (40s and 50s) in Cuba for example are literally held together with ducktape, adobo, and chicken wire. If they even have an engine it's whatever they could find: lawn mower, motorcyle, or tractor engine. The cars from the 50s were incredible polluters. Part of the reason we even have emission standards was because of how much NOx and unburnt fuel came out the tailpipe. When the last one bites the dust I'll miss it as much as I miss a stage coach.