Car manufactures want to make it illegal to work on your own vehicles. Their solution is to design it so complicated to discourage or make it impossible to do so. Plus they will design tools only they have to work on them.

I do hear that some electronic parts required being paired with the cars computer. Even though you can replace the part it still won’t work without pairing via a dealer visit or an expensive diagnostic tool. Then there is the extensive list of sensors all about the vehicle that seem mostly to protect the automaker from lawsuits yet we have to pay for them.
I like the simplicity of my late 70’s bronco and even my ‘02 Wrangler which is fuel injected but quite simple mechanically.

GM in their infinite wisdom years ago designed some power window switches that require programming to the vehicle’s body control module.

quote:

Originally posted by shovelhead:
On to the next adventure coming up a week from today. The 67 Pontiac, both lower ball joint boots have torn, Moog parts, replaced them a number of years ago once already. So replace, align front end and at the sale time replace the aged out tires with new.

Moog may replace those parts at no charge, call them up, have the part numbers, if you did the work it should be easier, they usually want to look back to a shop that sold it, but if you bought them at say autozone they should just replace the ball joints.

This is just RETARDED...



https://x.com/HappyMotorhead/s.../2068065254035144972