Ok, well I"m old enough to crawl about with a flashlight looking for
weirdness, and not old enough so like you that I have to worry about
what 15 year old car I'll have in 20 years or so to peek at too. At
some point here they'll stick stickers on the door and say void's
warranty,
no user servicable parts etc behind panel, and likely danger high
voltage authorized personal only sooner than expected I'd guess.
On 10-Nov-06, at 2:50 PM, R A Bennell wrote:
I'm showing my age but I am old school enough to want to be able to
open the hood and look around. I also do not
buy new cars so it is usually a good idea for me to keep an eye on
what is happening.
Randy
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Subject: Re: [MBZ] smart USA vehicle announced
Well if they are talking about oil changes every 12,000 miles, and
service checks every 25,000 miles they are really
into the consumer doesn't need to get access to the engine now. Most
I guess will run until the idiot lamp (needs service) comes on, most
interesting one is when water separator becomes full because local
(low volume) diesel station is selling water infested diesel fuel,
then engine stops.... Still it warns you, but people report warning
versus stopping is iffy... I *belive* the new one is using different
engines, not MB made, so I cann't comment on how they will work.
Versus the weekly check on the two diesel with flashlight to see if
anything odd (or leaking) is happening.
