NP. For shizzle.
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In competitive markets yeah. Isolated and douchey Honda franchises are still trying though so ymmv.
Conversely you could *reward* Honda by buying a Type-R for the same price.
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I’m with you on the first point, but Tesla is making things that are way less serviceable than you describe. Watch the video. The battery is four planks that cannot be reduced further without significant damage. Likely when one fail it’ll have to be thrown out/recycled completely. Also Tesla buries the hell out of…
So true. I looked into a manual Crosstrek when they came out. Entering it, like most Subaru’s, was like being transported back to 1994. Just archaic interiors. I think they’re finally improving, but that’s been the let down for Team Subbie for some time as far as I’m concerned.
Precisely my thought. Would be interesting to see what kind of lateral G one could achieve if you basically remove endurance from the equation.
If I told a Wall Street analyst there was a multi-million dollar tip inside a jar and filled it with high concentration sulfuric acid, they’d probably lose all four limbs reaching for it, forgetting about the acid about five minutes after losing each. It’s just mind boggling how short-sighted american business has…
Make it a roadster. It’s easy. Just ditch the frumpy “City Car” shell. Put wider tires on it. Push the two seats back and lay them down a bit. Add a Targa panel. Done. I’m going to keep saying this until somebody from BMW get’s their head out of their ass and makes a fun, little sports car out of what is in essence a…
Grain of salt for now. This theory got some attention on Reddit a few days ago. He *may* have just heard about it there. I mean it’s all plausible, but I’m not latching on to this hope-rope.
This is not crazy. EV pancakes really do open a window for the return of coachbuilding. I still desperately want to see a roadster on the i3's platform.
I was actually thinking along those lines when he showed and discussed the battery design. Near as I can tell the battery is made up of four irreducible “planks”. They literally had to scrap and pic apart a gel-foam to gain access to individual cells, and this just for examination. Compared to the BMW i3 pancake…
Yeah this is pretty open knowledge. Nissan is quickly becoming Oldsmobile of the 90's. All its cache is aging, it’s cars are getting softer (*cough*CVT*cough*), and they’re dumping inventory on rental companies.
Ah yes. I replaced my ‘89 with a ‘99 that had OBDII so my brain spits out this number. My bad.
Not at first. The Chinese have successfully commoditized code readers now, but for a number of years after the 99' switch over they were insanely expensive. And manufacturers still use non-regular codes all the time that your reader may not have indexed.
Ha! Yes. Forgot about that. Little cylindrical thing with a switch on top. They were by no means innocent.
I feel like this is more an excuse than a reason. I like to wrench a bit and I say give me a DI system over the arcane voodoo of carb balancing any day. Packaging has made things harder but the sheer technology of a modern engine could also be used to simplify things.
I feel like this would be a simple thing for a EULA to cover. And while I don’t think it’s backroom per se, I’m confident the reason in went away has more to do with dealer profits than poor end user repairs.
Conspiracy theories *can* be correct though. The word itself is not defined as false. In this case it is a fact that manufacturers have conspired with service interests to keep car self diagnosis as obtuse as possible in order to thwart DIY efforts.
Yes but WHY EVEN HAVE CODES! We have cars that can practically drive themselves. You’re telling me they couldn’t include a simple table for the computer to output the actual problem for the owner rather than P075A?