Yeah, but with dat $7.50 Kmart AC Delco coil (just *one*, btw), points, and
a carb, I was getting 40 and 45 mpg on my Datsun 510 and B210.  With
150/200K.

With sealed beams that cost $5.

With pretty much anything I could fix *myself*, short of a fried crankshaft,
pistons, valves, or tranny.

With a PentiumXX chip, yer gettin HOW MANY mpgs??????
Which will cost HOW MUCH when it fries?
Which can now be shut off *remotely* anytime an a.shole feels like shutting
it off???

What did those $2,400 headlights tell you about CorPirate Merka's
*intentions* with the sanctity/integrity of your a.s??
Two-thousand-four-hundred fukn dollars for two lite bulbs, reflectors, and
clear plastic.

Ten sets of headlights, and you've have the $$ equiv of a brand new effing
car!!!!!!!

No thanks.
I'll change points, and sputter up a hill once in a while, and read a g-d
MAP.

And there wasn't any sputtering, either.

Hey, electronics are great.
Just keep the jagged circuit boards out of my rectum.

I still regularly drive my 60s cars thousands of miles per year and
have never once been left stranded on the side of the road.  I know
when the maintenance needs to be done and take care of it in a timely
fashion..  I know what parts are going to fail on me (like the $5
ballast resistor) and change them once a year regardless.  Cars might
have rusted quicker in the good ol' days but with modern lubricants
most 60's engines would run as many miles as most current ones and the
rest of the drive trains would easily outlast the new ones.

Fuel injection is a great thing and without the emissions controls on
the cars now we would probably all be dead from the pollution so the
electronics have some great selling points but the integration and
prices on some of that stuff is just crazy.  Like the voltage
regulator in the computer that goes and you have to replace a several
hundred dollar computer instead of a ten dollar voltage regulator. For
the life of me I can't figure out what the great advantage was to
justify this change or the many others like it.

             Steve B.

On Feb 12, 11:40 pm, "The Pre-Meltdown Kid"
<entropic3.14de...@optonline2.718.net> wrote:

Yes, and at the then minimum wage of $1.35 per hour I'm sure that a
$7.50 coil would have been quite expensive.
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Ackshooly, closer to $3/hr, iirc.  So double the price to $15..
AND,
Here, you need *six* of them at $100.  What a fukn con job.

Not on the Maxima's I'm familiar with.
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2002 or thereabouts.  Big scandal, as Nissan knew about the remove-ability
of these headlight assemblies, and did nothing to make them theft-proof.

Sheeit, Honda wants over $200 for the Fit car battery, which is little
bigger than a HD motorcycle battery.
Fortunately, Sears has the approx size for relatively cheap, but still about
the same as a full-size truck battery.

Cars are like printers:
Cars are excuses to extort the consumer for parts, printers are excuses to
extort the consumer for ink cartridges.

The mfr's could *give away* cars/printers for free, and do well off the
parts/consumables.

It's all very-well laid out, as your Congress has been bought and paid for
to make sure the Extortion runs smoothly.
No one ever gets caught at the Money Drop.