ransley wrote:
On May 8, 11:40 am, Molly Brown wrote:
Up until the sixties and seventies on the weekends I used to see
people in their driveways and garages repairing or doing maintenance
on their cars. I hardly ever see that anymore. It used to be that if
you wanted to have your car repaired you could just go to any repair
shop. Today you have to consider what the repair involves. If it’s
something complicated you need to take it to the dealer and pay the
big bucks or same time next year you’re probably going to have the
same problem. To know why this is just lift up the hood of a car from
that era and then do the same thing to an automobile today.

Then you had points and plugs that never lasted, carburators that
could be adjusted, 70000 mile starters, alternators and crappy
manufacturing, Now its different , but I never use a dealer unless its
under warranty. I see you dont know much about cars or how or where to
fix them.

Remember when you couldn't leave the ignition
switch on without the motor running for fear
of burning up the points or ballast resistor?
Vehicles don't seem to be a delicate anymore.
Darn, I miss the days of auto maintenance being
akin to alchemy. Do you know where your feeler
gauges are?

TDD