Re: How tmes have changed.

Posted by DM37 On 2024/4/26 12:53:45

As long as we are in grumpy geezer mode:

all you get these days is a small glovebox manual with "take to authorized dealer" as the remedy, where they then proceed to "remove and replace entire foreign-sourced subassembly" at near-total-the-car cost so they can sell you a new vehicle; then make a killing on your trade-in.

Ive worked on Packards for 54 years as well as all the "modern" cars Ive owned in the same timeframe...nothing beats straightforward individual systems to isolate, diagnose and fix using US customary wrenches, a multimeter and old "machine sense" logic...same for my 1954, 1962, 1979, 1983 farm machinery...after that things got stupid...even toasters (a simple resistor/thermostat) now have microprocessors in them.

Working on Packards is parallel to working on Mechanical Sculpture...except for Bijur and Ultra-Magic transmissions.

...there, now I feel better