Software glitch could strand Chevy Volt drivers. But officer, I didn’t park in the middle of the freeway, my computer crashed!
This post was last modified on January 26, 2021
Software glitch could strand Chevy Volt drivers. But officer, I didn’t park in the middle of the freeway, my computer crashed!
This post was last modified on January 26, 2021
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Must be running Windows.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_KrSMdxqf0
Judging by the way my computer behaves at times, I'm not sure I'm comfortable with the notion of software-controlled cars. I like the idea of mechanical linkages between my brake pedal and my brakes, for instance. Also between my steering wheel and my front wheels. I guess that makes me a dinosaur. Pretty soon the cars will be driving themselves and 12-year-old kids will be hacking the software and we'll all spend the first ten minutes of our day sitting in the garage waiting for "security updates" to download.
They need to bring back cars with contact breakers, back when a regular guy could do his own complete tune-up. Now with the mandatory event recorders (black boxes) you can't even do your own oil change.
I'm with ya JP. I stopped doing work on cars when you started having to plug them into a computer to find out what the problem is.
Ah, how I long for the days when you could work on a car with a few basic tools. Or at least long for a CAR you can work on with a few basic tools.
Actually the OBD stuff isn't bad if you have a fairly simple older vehicle. My 96 Land Rover is easy to work on. The OBD codes eliminate a lot of guessing if something goes whack.
On newer cars with more electronic shit than you can shake a stick at I agree.
I had an 08 Toyota land cruiser. I could SEE the oil filter, I just couldn't REACH the oil filter.
I am seriously thinking about trying to find an old Dodge dart swinger with the straight 6 if (when) I get back to the states. Or an old 70's pickup truck.
Hell, ANYTHING I can actually stand inside the wheel well and turn a wrench works for me.
I'm no kind of mechanic, but when I drove Dune Scooters for a summer job back in college I had to change belts and change oil and easy crap like that, and a skinny kid like me could literally get into the engine compartment. (Head first sometimes when somebody dropped something.) Now I open my car's hood and wonder how the hell they get all that crap in there.
A lot of the Toyota/Lexus V-6's have the starter under the intake manifold. Go figure.
Where are all the new Volts bought by the Obummer administration to send to foriegn embassys going to get checked out? It will cost a fortune to bring all 20 or 30 of them back to the states to get checked out.