Higgs Boson

That's because "your generation wasn't taught to work on cars" and you're unwilling to learn.....

I'd bet a good amount of money that you and I are in the same generation. So really, it comes down to the individual, just like everything else in this life in this world.

We all know exactly what we want to know.

MikeLsx

cars of today are built to last (within reason) unlike what my father had to deal with in the 1970s. You had to drive around with a tool box in the trunk.

same reason why its not worth people learning how to use manual transmission because its going away.

the era of people working on there own cars will die with my fathers generation.

Out of all my friends i have ever knew, probably two of them even know how to change oil.

Higgs Boson

I think you have your cause and effect mixed up.

You don't learn to drive a stick because it's going away? Yeah, it's going away because you don't want to learn to drive it. WE decide what they build. They will build it if we will buy it.

There is a sense of pride associated with knowing how to do everything, driving manual transmission, repair your own drywall, fix your lawn mower, cook you own meal, etc.

GenX knows how things work, GenY only knows how to use them. If it breaks, they're screwed.....

Men aren't ok with that. Men can drive stick shift. You and your buddies need to hand in your man cards.

NSC5

To add to Higgs' comments when you understand how things work you also better understand how to operate them AND why you do things a certain way.

As one example anybody who drives in "touristy" mountain areas will quickly become familiar with the smell of cooked brakes from the people who see the signs "steep grades, use lower gears" but assume since they have an automatic transmission they don't have to do anything. As long as these dolts are in front of me it doesn't bother me too much

Even when you do have to rely upon someone else for service work if you understand the basics of the machine you can provide a far better description for the service provider of the symptoms and the conditions under which they occurred. Doing so greatly increases the odds of a fast and good repair experience compared to, "my car started making a funny noise, fix it."

My 12 year old daughter will be learning to drive in a few years and I make sure that I explain both what I am doing AND why so that she will be prepared to make good decisions.

Elite275

Exactly. My boys (5 and 10) are in the garage with me whenever I'm modding or fixing something. I love the curiosity and all of the questions. Of course my favorite question is "Will this make it faster?"

LethalPerformanceTX

This car was not methanol dependent . It is wrong to say that the problem was methanol and we did a crappy job. We knew nothing about this, until a customer let us know that we were getting bashed on here and this is wrong. Hard to tell whether the connecting rod or piston let loose first, but failures do happen when you install a supercharger on a stock motor pushing these things to their limits. Too many variables - how was car driven, fuel that was in it etc.As far as the catch can goes, I know it had 2 breathers on it and it was routed correctly.

savewave

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