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Post by whitehorse on Oct 14, 2019 8:04:24 GMT
For those of you who think a new car will fix the car problems...currently getting a hotel room (that I luckily had enough money for). Company car (that I get to use for personal use) just lost power 5 hrs from home and can’t make it nor try to clear the code at 10:30pm. My truck is almost 35 years old and my car is 47 years old. Glad I’m not making payments on this 30k dollar broken down ride!
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Post by torpedo on Oct 14, 2019 8:05:58 GMT
New cars are a cash cow for the dealers. I saw this coming. I grew up in the 90's. went to auto school, before 1996 you had to use dealer scanners or the expensive snap on scanners to work on them. In 1996 the government made the diagnostic ports all the same. OK, here comes the easy years. buy a cheap scanner at autozone and easy peasy. Well the car company's didn't like that, so they made it ever so hard to do things yourself, like take away transmission dip sticks, requiring a visit to the dealer, then software that belongs to them, and now over complex emissions systems that will never be happy and let you pass an emissions check, back to the cash cow. From now on I will only buy nice older cars. I'm out.
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Post by oldhippy on Oct 14, 2019 8:07:35 GMT
Have the exact thing happening with my 2016 Colorado. Good thing it's my employer's vehicle and not mine. I'll take a late 90s truck over any piece of garbage they make these days
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Post by merc on Oct 14, 2019 8:09:34 GMT
OLD HIPPY same. I have an 86 Chevrolet and trust it more than anything I’ve been given by the company
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