Mayayana wrote:
"Chris" wrote

| With cars being computers on wheels nowadays most mechanics don't know how
| they work either. Especially non-ICE ones. They plug in a laptop with
| diagnostic software and fix whatever the s/ware tells them to. Rinse and
| repeat until the car works again.
|

I bought one of those error report gizmos. $50. Works well.
The trouble is that all the errors are from things that didn't
even exist a few years earlier. On my last truck I had to
replace two exhaust pipe sensors. Exhaust pipe sensors?!

Yep. That's why cars don't have a manual choke anymore. The engine
management system is continually tuning the engine so needs sensors. I've
had one fail recently and the car sounded really rough until it was
replaced.