Wayne, very good topic, excellent post. I own and manage an automotive repair shop in Oregon. What I find is that the modern cars and trucks, for the most part are much more reliable and take less maintenance than older rigs. However, when the newer rigs do need work it seems to always be much more complicated, costly, and much more likely to need specialized equiptment for the repair. For instance it wasn't very long ago that brakes lasted ten to twenty thousand miles. Now it isn't unusual to see brakes go one hundred thousand miles. A few years ago, before I quit working on cars, I had a fairly late model Dodge mini van come in that had a bad body control module. It took me four remans from the dealer before I got one to work right. I was truly pulling what little hair I had left out before that one was done. the electronics are great when they work right, but extremely frustrating when they malfunction. My conclusion is this, there will always be repair work, but I have learned to be more selective in what I do. I tell my techs this regularly, "you are not going to be everything to everybody all the time." My two cents worth, and that is probably all it is worth.
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