You'll find clusters of PEs everywhere there are lives hanging on mature engineering. Aircraft, Automotive, Power, Navel as well as Civil and others I'm no doubt forgetting.
Your fault then. Haggling is legal, even at the parts counter. You knew the jobber price, don't pay a penny more. You know they're selling them profitably at that price.
Lots of locksmiths have those. Not a reason to goto the stealership in the first place.
That's not a broken harness. That's a dirty connector. Contact cleaner and dielectric grease.
When training up recent college grads in tech rolls (has been a good way to fix PCs for decades):
First bit of advice. It's the power supply, it's always the power supply...(50% in my experience, YMMV)
Second: It's a loose connector. Unplug and replug all the connectors. Reseat all the expansion cards.
Third: Yank and spank. Remove all the noncritical parts, leave populated motherboard and power supply (Yank). POST. Add parts 1 at a time and POST (Spank the power button).
You are suffering from learned helplessness. Fix yourself. Change your oil, once in your life, anybody can do it. Watch a Youtube video. Yes, your time is worth more, the knowledge is worth still more.
You don't have to be a mechanic to know you've gone 5k (10k for synthetic oil) miles and need an oil change. That's a tell, you have mentally checked out and 'punted' to your mechanic. Do you also ask your barber if you need a haircut? Do you ask Microsoft if you should upgrade to the latest Windows? Intel if you need a CPU upgrade? Stock broker if you should move your holdings around? Shyster if you should sue someone (for $5 in damage)?
You have to be a not incompetent shade tree mechanic to find an honest professional mechanic. If you know nothing, you are in the position of the PHB counting lines of code. Best option is a reference from a mechanic you can trust, but I've observed that mechanical incompetence runs in social circles. If you can't wrench, the odds are high that _nobody_ you know can.
First sign a mechanic isn't completely honest: Works for a stealership. He knows that even if he's completely honest, the rest of the process is crooked, and he's OK with that (e.g. He replaces good parts, cause that's what the 'writer' wrote.)
Some fools buy vehicles other than actual jeeps (Wranglers these days) from jeep. The Cherokee is pretty awful, in a league with the leather covered, castrated Land Rovers sold in the USA.
Even actual Jeeps were terrible during the AMC days. Some had Renault (spit) parts. But those were just bodies to install V8s into. None of the driveline components were worth keeping.
LOL, you think the book hours are something other than another way to rip you off.
Hint: They charge book hours, they pay (all but the most senior mechanics) actual hours (and fire them if those aren't _way_ under book) and pocket the difference in both time and rate. Dealerships have _one_ senior mechanic/shift, who's constantly on the verge of rage quitting. The rest are recent tech school grads, who are making well under $20/hour.
Which is for paid work, from super chumps, the stealership mechanics get even more fucked on warranty work. Even the stealership can get into grief for pulling their usual shit on the manufacturer, the manufacturers know the dealerships well, warranty audits are constant threats. So the stealership helps the manufacturer fuck the mechanics to keep the numbers looking good enough the auditor stays away.
It will all fall apart once the last moron comes to his senses and the dealership service department is left warranty only. But new morons are born every year.
Do you want to know how I know you haven't been to a scrapyard in decades? Five bucks?
Most wiring harness problems aren't manufacturing related, fire, idiot and rodents. Occasionally you get a brief period where a manufacturer gets their wire spec wrong (Honda at the door hinges), but that's so expensive, they get right on it.
It's not exactly a frequent maintenance item. What % of cars do you think go the shredder with, more or less, their factory wiring? I'm guessing 99%+.
Anybody with a soldering iron, a pair of clippers and some confidence (competence optional, also nice insulating masking tape) can and does modify/repair wiring. That's usually the kind of thing that leads to a new harness when it goes _really_ wrong.
How is this collusion? It's one company recognizing that it's customers are ego driven chumps and charging appropriately. If they call the aftermarket parts companies, then yes, slap the cuffs on them. Until then, it's SOP. Like using Newton's method to approximate a mathematical solution, they're just finding maximum profit.
Is Rolex also guilty of collusion? They charge what the market will bear...ego driven purchasing decisions are usually bad ones.
Am I also guilty of collusion? Are you? I don't think my clients are exactly proud of what they pay me, don't think they brag about it, but still.
What? cite? Hondas are cheap to keep. Granting they were better 10+ years ago, true for all brands.
You appear to own a generic motors car...and you talk shit about Honda? Seriously?
On topic: They are talking about limey and frog cars. I have no sympathy for the owners of such vehicles. Stupidity should be painful. Morons with money are the fat of the land and should be exploited for all they're worth.
You only want to give the UN power to 'smash capitalism' via arbitrary taxes, but your not against capitalism. Bullshit! Take you watermelon (green on the outside, red on the inside) approach elsewhere.
The day the UN gets the power to levy taxes is the day it ENDS. No sane nation would put up with that. UN would be homeless.
If you haven't been paying attention to the bullshit that regularly comes out of the UN general assembly, I don't know that I can say anything. 'Willful ignorance' and all. The UN GA has been angling for taxes on success, to send money to the corrupt, for decades.
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Airline Transport Pilot is the same training as VFR? Who knew?
GP: I bet a few school bus 'pilots' catch air.
Wait a second, fire hasn't been a toy forever?
I misspent my youth. Black powder is also a toy.
Citation needed. I shot a 20mm Lahti at a machine gun shoot for well under $200.
Sporting exception? Yeah, I'm hunting squirrel...
Exactly backwards.
The 'international community' the still needs American supervision/protection? 70 years after WW2? That international community?
Bet it's demilled. The 'gun' is likely a long piece of pipe, just for show.
How can you know your mechanic is honest?
Assuming you got lucky, how can you find another?
If you don't know how badly you are being ripped off, you can't know if it's cost effective.
A PE would be professionally responsible to tell his boss: 'No, that would be insecure, can't do it.' The NSA wouldn't hire software PEs.
I bet the NSA doesn't have lawyers on their hacking teams, because they carry extra responsibilities, they are a liability.
They're there, but 'no nothing, see nothing', not even if you have apple strudel.
You'll find clusters of PEs everywhere there are lives hanging on mature engineering. Aircraft, Automotive, Power, Navel as well as Civil and others I'm no doubt forgetting.
On incompatible parts, in the face of third party competition.
Your own fault. You bought the add-on from the stealership. Are you stupid? No, well you learned, didn't you?
Don't make the same mistake on navi next. Yearly software updates cost $1 less than a complete aftermarket system.
Refrigerator? Same, you wanted the fancy one. Don't flop you dick onto a chopping block, then complain.
Nylon can be machined. Round bar stock to match the OD, Drill on lathe to match the ID. Saw and sandpaper to smooth the ends if no lathe.
Find a polyurethane bushing by size. Energy Suspensions. Modify it to fit.
That works if you're Bugatti. Not enough volume to draw in new market participation.
If you're Ford, that ends with you selling none (SVO excepted).
What's the rush? AC compressor can wait, 4-60 AC (4 windows at 60mph).
Your fault then. Haggling is legal, even at the parts counter. You knew the jobber price, don't pay a penny more. You know they're selling them profitably at that price.
Lots of locksmiths have those. Not a reason to goto the stealership in the first place.
That's not a broken harness. That's a dirty connector. Contact cleaner and dielectric grease.
When training up recent college grads in tech rolls (has been a good way to fix PCs for decades):
First bit of advice. It's the power supply, it's always the power supply...(50% in my experience, YMMV)
Second: It's a loose connector. Unplug and replug all the connectors. Reseat all the expansion cards.
Third: Yank and spank. Remove all the noncritical parts, leave populated motherboard and power supply (Yank). POST. Add parts 1 at a time and POST (Spank the power button).
You are suffering from learned helplessness. Fix yourself. Change your oil, once in your life, anybody can do it. Watch a Youtube video. Yes, your time is worth more, the knowledge is worth still more.
You don't have to be a mechanic to know you've gone 5k (10k for synthetic oil) miles and need an oil change. That's a tell, you have mentally checked out and 'punted' to your mechanic. Do you also ask your barber if you need a haircut? Do you ask Microsoft if you should upgrade to the latest Windows? Intel if you need a CPU upgrade? Stock broker if you should move your holdings around? Shyster if you should sue someone (for $5 in damage)?
You have to be a not incompetent shade tree mechanic to find an honest professional mechanic. If you know nothing, you are in the position of the PHB counting lines of code. Best option is a reference from a mechanic you can trust, but I've observed that mechanical incompetence runs in social circles. If you can't wrench, the odds are high that _nobody_ you know can.
First sign a mechanic isn't completely honest: Works for a stealership. He knows that even if he's completely honest, the rest of the process is crooked, and he's OK with that (e.g. He replaces good parts, cause that's what the 'writer' wrote.)
Some fools buy vehicles other than actual jeeps (Wranglers these days) from jeep. The Cherokee is pretty awful, in a league with the leather covered, castrated Land Rovers sold in the USA.
Even actual Jeeps were terrible during the AMC days. Some had Renault (spit) parts. But those were just bodies to install V8s into. None of the driveline components were worth keeping.
LOL, you think the book hours are something other than another way to rip you off.
Hint: They charge book hours, they pay (all but the most senior mechanics) actual hours (and fire them if those aren't _way_ under book) and pocket the difference in both time and rate. Dealerships have _one_ senior mechanic/shift, who's constantly on the verge of rage quitting. The rest are recent tech school grads, who are making well under $20/hour.
Which is for paid work, from super chumps, the stealership mechanics get even more fucked on warranty work. Even the stealership can get into grief for pulling their usual shit on the manufacturer, the manufacturers know the dealerships well, warranty audits are constant threats. So the stealership helps the manufacturer fuck the mechanics to keep the numbers looking good enough the auditor stays away.
It will all fall apart once the last moron comes to his senses and the dealership service department is left warranty only. But new morons are born every year.
Do you want to know how I know you haven't been to a scrapyard in decades? Five bucks?
Most wiring harness problems aren't manufacturing related, fire, idiot and rodents. Occasionally you get a brief period where a manufacturer gets their wire spec wrong (Honda at the door hinges), but that's so expensive, they get right on it.
It's not exactly a frequent maintenance item. What % of cars do you think go the shredder with, more or less, their factory wiring? I'm guessing 99%+.
Anybody with a soldering iron, a pair of clippers and some confidence (competence optional, also nice insulating masking tape) can and does modify/repair wiring. That's usually the kind of thing that leads to a new harness when it goes _really_ wrong.
How is this collusion? It's one company recognizing that it's customers are ego driven chumps and charging appropriately. If they call the aftermarket parts companies, then yes, slap the cuffs on them. Until then, it's SOP. Like using Newton's method to approximate a mathematical solution, they're just finding maximum profit.
Is Rolex also guilty of collusion? They charge what the market will bear...ego driven purchasing decisions are usually bad ones.
Am I also guilty of collusion? Are you? I don't think my clients are exactly proud of what they pay me, don't think they brag about it, but still.
What? cite? Hondas are cheap to keep. Granting they were better 10+ years ago, true for all brands.
You appear to own a generic motors car...and you talk shit about Honda? Seriously?
On topic: They are talking about limey and frog cars. I have no sympathy for the owners of such vehicles. Stupidity should be painful. Morons with money are the fat of the land and should be exploited for all they're worth.
You only want to give the UN power to 'smash capitalism' via arbitrary taxes, but your not against capitalism. Bullshit! Take you watermelon (green on the outside, red on the inside) approach elsewhere.
The day the UN gets the power to levy taxes is the day it ENDS. No sane nation would put up with that. UN would be homeless.
If you haven't been paying attention to the bullshit that regularly comes out of the UN general assembly, I don't know that I can say anything. 'Willful ignorance' and all. The UN GA has been angling for taxes on success, to send money to the corrupt, for decades.
Yes I know, Vi has been in emacs for decades...