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Back in '05, I'd spend an hour with a manual and a test light to find a bad ground, but now I just plug in the scanner and it points me right to the harness near the firewall in about two minutes.
The old way taught you the whole system, but I can't argue with getting the customer's car out faster... anyone else miss the puzzle sometimes, or is it just me getting old?
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the_grace14d ago
Oh man, totally! I get that same feeling when I'm just swapping a module instead of actually fixing the thing inside it.
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uma_ellis13d ago
Wait, you can actually fix the thing inside the module? I thought the whole point was that they glue or seal it shut so you have to buy the whole new unit. The idea of someone opening one up and doing component-level repair feels like a lost art. That's wild.
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joel_martinez12d ago
My uncle used to rebuild carburetors on the kitchen table. He'd have all these tiny parts laid out on a newspaper. Now you just swap the whole fuel injection unit. It's faster, but you never really learn how the fuel metering actually works. Makes you wonder what skills the next generation of mechanics will even need to know.
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