Harder to work on cars

[obi_waynne]

Are modern cars harder or easier to work on?

Setting up carbs and gapping plugs are things of the past but now so much is computer controlled and sensor driven has it made cars harder to work on?

Engine swaps seem to take much longer now than in cars made 20 or more years ago. Engine bays are also much more packed with various parts. Take a look at the engine bay of a mk1 escort with a 1.3 engine and you'll see what I mean, you can see road through the engine bay quite clearly.

 

[old-git]

I don't know why manufactures don't just write '**** off' on the engine cover rather than their name. The only things they want you to touch have bright yellow caps.

How long before you will need a special code to open the bonnet?

 

[T9 man]

Is it a rich red or a fruity white tonight OG?

 

[TCJBOLDIE]

^^^^

 

[HDi fun]

Engines are pretty reliable. It's the ever smaller space that they are occupying under the hood that is the issue. Replacing a failed lamp can often take a couple of hours.

 

[TCJBOLDIE]

Engines are pretty reliable. It's the ever smaller space that they are occupying under the hood that is the issue. Replacing a failed lamp can often take a couple of hours.

They are packing so much more into the same or less space now that makes access to a faulty part or servicing so much more difficult at times.

 

[old-git]

Is it a rich red or a fruity white tonight OG? [/QUOTE

Nah, Curry tonight so a couple of tins of Fosters.

 

[HDi fun]

curry ....... please

 

[TCJBOLDIE]

Steve good to see you like a good old Aussie beer
Best served ice cold in a chilled frosty glass on a hot day

 

[old-git]

Fosters, Stella and most real ales.

 

[emmomojo]

Engines are pretty reliable. It's the ever smaller space that they are occupying under the hood that is the issue. Replacing a failed lamp can often take a couple of hours.

True. Bleeding knuckles

 

[emmomojo]

The nuts and bolts are still pretty much the same. They are just dressed up to burn the same old fuel in the same old way just it's the mixed blessing of the ecu in the hands of the gods, and often misleading engine codes.
The main dealer conspiracy, the engine code that could mean anything. Until you fix it trial and error, and spent a fortune on things you didn't need in the first place.

 

[HDi fun]

I wouldn't label all main dealers as conspirators. Volkswagen dealers: yes. They are a bunch of thieves.

In the middle ground we have Nissan and Peugeot.

BMW the complete opposite (strange but true!) in my experience.