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To: DMaA who wrote (764124)	6/20/2022 9:41:50 PM
From: Alan Smithee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793955

If the computer on a modern car gives put, fuggedaboutit. Gonna cost big bucks to fix. I’m hanging onto my 2012 Tundra. 98,000 miles and going strong. Just did a 4wd service and oil change. Only other maintenance over the years has been the periodic oil changes, replacing air filters and about 20,000 miles ago brake pads. BTW, here in the West we have Les Schwab tire stores. They also do brakes. When the time came to do my brake pads, they quoted $300 more than other places. Why? Because they also rebuild the calipers, even if they don’t need it done. Waste of money IMO.

To: DMaA who wrote (764124)	6/20/2022 9:45:37 PM
From: skinowski	2 Recommendations Recommended By pak73 robert a belfer Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793955

Amazing. $3500 for something a few drops of epoxy could fix. Seems like the car repair people are intimidated by the new electronics. Or, maybe for them it’s a liability issue of some sort. I remember in the mid -1970s I drove an old 1964 Chevy Biscayne. One day it stalled - right by a gas station with a mechanic's shop. The guy charged me $3 for the gas filter - and a couple of bucks for his few minutes of work - and I was out. Simpler times. Such things, I guess, no longer happen.

To: DMaA who wrote (764124)	6/21/2022 9:21:13 AM
From: D. Long	4 Recommendations Recommended By garrettjax John Carragher pak73 Tom Clarke Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793955

And mechanics only want to read an error report from a computer. Beep boo boop. My wife's Ford Taurus she owned years ago kept getting an error that the oxygen sensor was on the blip. Since she had just bought it and the used warranty was still in effect, she kept taking it back to the dealer, who kept replacing oxygen sensors. A mile down the road, the error would come back. Do you know what it was? It was the wire that hooked up into the oxygen sensor. Wire bad, computer thinks oxygen sensor is dead. Took an old fashioned mechanic who actually looked at the damned car and did some rational troubleshooting to find it.