On Friday 13 October 2006 07:04 pm, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 10/13/2006 at 6:53 PM Roy J. Tellason wrote:
Automotive stuff in general seems to be getting
worse and worse as time
goes on for being able to work on it, but the trend seems to be in all
sorts of manufactured product. Or maybe I'm just getting grouchier about
it...
It's like everything else nowadays--not made to be serviced at all, just
easy to manufacture. The idea being that if you keep your Lumina long
enough to have a dead battery, you should have already purchased a new one.
Yup, and having made my living for way too much of the time fixing stuff, I
find myself without marketable skills these days... :-(
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ablest -- form of life in this section of spac, a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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