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Yep I agree, and doing any maintenance on modern cars requires a super expensive (or sketchy pirated/ebay purchased) diagnostic computer from the manufacturer.

• bandyaboot 3y ago
  > Yep I agree, and doing any maintenance on modern cars requires a super expensive (or sketchy pirated/ebay purchased) diagnostic computer from the manufacturer. Unless things have drastically changed in the last 3-4 years, this has not been my experience. I haven’t had any trouble tracking down issues with a standard, cheap code scanner. The biggest issue with doing anything more than routine maintenance on modern cars is how tightly everything is packed together. Often times it just makes a job more difficult, but still doable. Sometimes a job will require too much investment in tools to be practical. > For example power steering in older cars was a simple hydraulic mechanical system that could fail gracefully and be troubleshooted with minimal tools. Nowadays steering is electronic drive-by-wire and has many more components like actuators, sensors, etc. that can all fail and stop the entire system. Do you have anything to suggest that this increased complexity has actually led to an increased rate of failure in the steering system of modern cars? Because I believe in practice it’s been quite the opposite.