I think this thead goes to the point of owning an MG, My spouse is more
intersted in getting home than how to put a string on the waterpump. We
own a 96 Neon and if the fan belt brakes, I can still put a shoestring on
it and make it work- waiting until it gets fixed. I can-not fix sh-t, Nor
can the SO, I do not have the tools to do. I can replace the plugs and
filters and what have you ??? Just 'cuz I don't have the TOOLS.
Diffferent Thought:
The AAA is a belief in sombody else to fix it for you - Do they have the
parts? If you own an MG you have to rely on (somebody) else that will
get the job done
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Life's a b**ch, and then You die.
Larry Macy (&Janet)
78 Midget
One of these days Sam Staton will get a spam of notice
>At 12:18 PM 5/31/97 -0400, you wrote:
>> Computer discourse snipped
>
>I make my living with computers. That does not mean that I like them, or
>consider them the best thing since baked bread. IMHO, the only reason
>computers exist in modern automobiles is to provide the user with some kind
>of acceptable power and performance while appeasing the public masters who
>decree what and when we can drive (EPA - otherwise known as ecoterrorists)
>(Nomex suit donned - flame away). I cannot work on my wife's car ('95
>Achieva), nor would I care to. I drive a 1964 Impala SS every day (until
>Maggie hits the road again, anyway). I can work on it. One morning not too
>long ago, it died on me on the way to work. If that had happened to my
>wife's car, I would have been trying to find a way to pay a monstrous (and
>unforgivably so!) mechanic bill. As it was, I fixed my Impala with a pocket
>knife and a pair of pliers (coil wire shorted out to the exhaust manifold -
>just a little bit too long). It is this that I think most people resent
>about automotive computers - 1) we didn't ask for them - they were mandated
>2)we don't know what they're doing and have no easy way to discover that
>information 3)they are outrageously expensive (read higher automobile
>costs). With all of that said, I am still glad that my wife drives a modern
>auto, because I can assume that she is safe when she is on the road, and
>the possibility that I may have to get her some dark night on some dark
>road populated with weirdos in minimal. That doesn't mean I have to like
>it, though!
>
>Sam Staton
>'73 B Rdstr (Maggie)
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