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Hi John,
Glad to hear from you and we sure miss you having your 240 too! (:)
Yep, I can understand what you mean about a loony bin when things just don’t seem to go the way you are thinking for a moment.
Apparently those bang marks under the car in that area is the place where the last person was standing in his own loony bin.
Good thing the better half was more “calm and collected” with her flat head screwdriver?
Now I wonder what that motor costs that fails so soon? I have read about them before.
Now, really you are not that bad off.
I have a neighbor with a two year old Chevy Blazer and he mentioned that it has a nine speed transmission.
He has all of 6,000 Miles on it.
He was starting to feel “occasionally” a slight thud going down a grade during one of its shifts. He said he couldn’t find a dip stick.
I didn’t even know that Chevrolet was up that high in shifting numbers.
While looking it up on the internet I ran across a problem page forum.
I guess Chevy is “quietly” doing a customer to customer recall on a need only basis.
I told him about it and he contacted his dealers mechanic and they owned up to it.
He had to file by a certain date that was only a few months away or he would be out of luck!
The mechanic also said there was no dip stick and only a plug to check the levels. Apparently it’s Not exactly easy to reach either as it’s under the car up high.
It’s another case of a possible “lifetime fill” or check if the customer demands it done.
Anyways, the cure from Chevy involves getting the transmission replaced completely, but only, if a form is filled out before the cut off date.
With the amount of driving he does and the number of times he would ever see that mechanic, it was an easy shut out for any of the dealerships. I can only imagine what kind of dissatisfaction ratings are in the future for Chevrolet.
I think maybe Volvo is already reading the paint on the walls of Internal Combustion Engines still receiving “life lines” to keep them on the road.
What scares me is the way the industry is changing over to electric vehicles.
They cannot even get on the same pages of how to connect chargers to them.
I see all underground induction pads as far simpler for everyone. Even expanded into roadways or major highways.
No thieves taking power cords for the metals and fewer batteries moving about using energy to do so.
It’s Totally a bunch of “loony bin” stuff on something so simple, right out the gate.
Do we, as a species, only learn by backing into things like new drivers do?
I envision, Reading the cars “vin” number from the undersides of the cars internals.
The connecting and billing conformation done in one pass. No shuffling about in snow or rain.
Have Assigned employee parking pads on a commercial grid while at work.
Pads can be located throughout the country side were ever there are street lights.
There’s enough of those already in place!
A complete network hooked together wirelessly to a car and billed through the wired system just like the power companies already using for all their customers.
Hey, their called “Smart Meters” for a reason.
Street lights are Not even used during the day so a better return on that capital outlay.
Photovoltaics can charge under a street light, at the moment, for free! (:)
Each community will get its own share of a revenue only by pads.
Bookkeeping electronically in the future, no matter, if they will still be slicing bread from loaves.
Yep, The 240s were simpler and it’s very hard, if not impossible, to beat simpler. But not wanting a Model A Ford either.
We have made so many things differently only to bring on as many frustrations.
Example of her flat tip screwdriver.
What’s up with styles of screwdriver tips besides the size numbering? I get that part to an extent but still cuss the metric and English systems as a fiasco.
How smart does one have to be to look around at the world, as a planet it is? It’s all we got!
Guess who is alone but we have a Webb telescope. ???
Phil
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