[AT] off topic, Internet takeover by govt ?(now GM 5300)

[Ron Cook]

Charlie,
     The computers do that for sure.  My dad drove like an old woman all 
his life, except he did not slip the clutch to regulate speed. He taught 
my step-mother to drive and she drove just like him.  They would never 
have realized the Suburban was operating poorly.  I have been using it a 
little off and on for the last 3 years and it progressively gets better 
each time I use it.  It probably has over 50 thousand miles going 
nowhere but to the local bars and back home.  Anywhere from 1 block to 
20 miles one way trips.  Several times a day.  When I turned 16...1959,  
I jumped into dad's 57 Chev Bel Air power pack, duel exhaust, 283 ci 
v-8, that he bought new in the fall of '56.   Floored that puppy and was 
amazed that a Farmall M would probably out perform it.  I rammed around 
a little with it and got the lifters clattering and the thing missing 
and who know what all.  I parked it back in the yard and figured it was 
my last day alive on earth.  The next day, instead of my being hung by 
my heels, my step-mother got in it and moseyed off to her school 
teaching job and that Chevy ran just like a sewing machine. Whew!!!  
When it got traded off in 1962, someone that thought they were getting 
your typical '57,  got a huge surprise, I am sure.
     Who knows!  Between me, some sensors, and that computer, we may end 
up with a good vehicle and I can feel better about keeping it. I do not 
appreciate those expensive 17 inch tires on it that are going to need 
replacing soon.  Well, a couple anyway.  Front end alignment is probably 
off.  My nephew had the right front all apart and all over the shop 
floor a month or two before the vehicle was given to me.  The right 
front tire is all chopped up.

Ron Cook
Salix, IA
On 2/7/2015 11:11 AM, charlie hill wrote:
> Follow up to my other reply.   First off, vehicles vary with each one
> that rolls out the factory door.  They shouldn't but they do.  That is
> why we have the term "lemon".  Also, my truck doesn't have the
> variable displacement which I'm sure affects overall performance.
> One more thing,  the computers in new vehicles reprogram until they
> figure out how the driver drives them so, for example, a car driven
> around town by a little old lady will perform differently than an
> identical car driven by an 18 year old farm boy.   If the farm boy
> drives the old ladies car for a while the computer will make the adjustments
> to his driving style, or at least that's how it's supposed to work.
> The old saying regarding new vehicles from back in my younger years seems to
> apply even more
> now than back then "break them in like you want them to run".
>
> Charlie
>