[AT] Right to repair

Cecil Bearden crbearden at copper.net
Tue Nov 26 16:16:43 PST 2019


Phil:
Those bulbs can be removed!!!
Cecil

On 11/26/2019 2:21 PM, Phil Auten wrote:
> I previously owned a '91 F-150. Still computer controlled, but other 
> than that, a basic truck. Just before I sold it, it started acting up, 
> intermittently. After the third time, I took it to the dealer and old 
> them to "fix it" and that I thought that it could be a bad ground 
> somewhere that I could not find. Turns out that it did have a bad 
> ground, but that was not the cause of the problem I was having. After 
> about two weeks, they called me with the diagnosis: a bad PCM 
> (computer). No new units were available (it was now 2010) so they 
> sourced a rebuilt unit from O'Reilly's auto Parts. Truck ran like new 
> and the intermittent stalling never reared it's ugly head again. Only 
> cost me about $650. I turned around and sold it to a neighbor for 
> $2,000 and he resold it to a guy who parked it by US77 and resold it 
> to another local. I passed it one afternoon on the way into Temple, 
> and on the way back it was parked outside Durango Inn, the local beer 
> joint. I went in and found the new owner who stated "That's a good 
> truck". As far as I know, he's still driving it. The truck had 226,000 
> miles on it when I sold it 9 years ago.
>
> My "new" truck is a 2009 F-150. It now has a little over 88,000 miles 
> on it and has already had the anti-lock brake controller fail. 
> Anti-lock function still worked, but the two lights on the dash 
> remained on, so the truck would not pass state inspection. That one 
> cost me $1,100. In addition, Ford stopped offering manual 
> transmissions in their trucks, Sure wish I had a six-speed manual in 
> mine.
>
> The point of all this is that the weak link in the newer vehicles is 
> the electronics. They apparently do not understand "worst case design".
>
> Phil in TX
>
>
> On 11/26/2019 10:44 AM, toma at risingnet.net wrote:
>> On 2019-11-21 10:00, Ralph Goff wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> That is just one more reason I'm happy to be running older machinery
>>> and vehicles built before y2k.
>>>
>>> Ralph in Sask.
>>
>> Exactly Ralph,
>>
>> When I first got a look at the cars and trucks that came out in 2000, 
>> I said no thanks I don't ever want one of those. I am real happy with 
>> my '92 Ford F250. All of my tractors and farm equipment are '50's and 
>> older. I have since refined it to pre '96 for cars and trucks.  The 
>> problem is any potential replacements are over 20 years old now.
>>
>> Tom in CA
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