Some of these newer vehicle are so packed in, some of the known maintenance items becomes a nightmare.
I have a vehicle now where they are using a belt for the oil pump. To get to it, you have to remove the front of the vehicle and then the front of the engine. Not looking forward to that. Or, the seizing of the engine.
Dreaming of the small block days where you could sit on the body panel with your legs draped into the engine compartment.
They don’t want vehicle owners doing the work they want u to go to a shop get charged an arm n a leg lol
Could be. Right to repair stuff. Though, a good deal of the bloat has roots from the regulatory stuff. Which is another debate on goodness/badness. Lowered emissions/higher curb weight, etc.
You guys are talking me into a bicycle real quick. 
The 284 Chevys …. You could damn near sleep in the engine compartment.
Always double check your battery if it’s close to 2 years old. You start to get lots of weird codes when batteries start failing on modern trucks. Hopefully, it’s something easy and cheap for you.
Good to see the helmet 
It’s just an evolved skill set from the days of tuning carbs is all.
Oh yea. My son will give me a lecture if he sees me on a bike without a helmet. Or anyone else.
I grew up on working on cars. Got into a car accident back in April. They had to remove some stuff. My roof rail cover went flying off going down the road. Over spray all over my car. I just noticed the rear tail light is holding water. Feels like the light isn’t very tight. I had to adjust the bumper because it was hitting the deck lid. I love the older cars. Small blocks are cool. I remember fixing them up.
Did they use an OEM light for the replacement? Or aftermarket?
Was an aftermarket that they actually supplied. Then, miraculously 2 weeks later, the seal surrounding the headlight module “failed”, had water intrusion, and my first error code popped up.
I strongly believe that’s the root cause of the issues, but again, I signed the damn form and waived all my recourse rights. But that’s the only way they’ll do the work. Official Ram dealership, where I bought the truck new. They have performed all the maintenance since day 1.
Aftermarket headlights are hot trash. Imo
I use aftermarket all the time. Some are trash. Keystone sells decent aftermarket parts. It is true that the big 5 doesn’t want you to work on your car. The new models you can’t put in transmission fluid.
Ya thats crazy, a headlight should be so simple anyone can do it.
Remember changing your own brakes?Teaching your kid how to chaulk block the tires and use a jack properly and pop out those pads?The newer ones you have to go to a shop to have them swapped out and reset on a computer.How about changing your own oil?Now you have to use a dealer machine to suck out the oil and put new oil in.I thought planned obsolescence was a big deal this takes it to a whole new level
It’s not easy anymore. I still change my oil.
find an electric specialist— shops usually have a name & number of a guy who charges 4-5 times their own rate who swoops in & solves months-long problem child in less than half a day. like the wolf in pulp fiction. a clean up man.
find such a dude or push that p o s off a cliff. there’s one where @ReikoX ditches his jeeps 
ohm
I donno about that man, I do all those things on both of our trucks. I can even run recalibrations using the ecu etc etc. You can definitely do these things at home, the tools have evolved.
