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I was having a chat with my next door neighbour about a car I'm looking at, when I mentioned it was a 52 plate he started to bang on about how cars today aren't as good as cars 15 years ago. Now this guy likes to tinker and is always underneath his car at the weekend with a spanner in one hand and a Haynes manual in the other.
Now what he said got me thinking. Back when I was younger I remember my dad buying old second hand cars and spending more time with the bonnet up than driving them but nowadays if something goes wrong, you just drop it in to a garage where a dude with a computer runs a program that tells him where the fault should be.
Has putting all these computer engine management systems in cars today made repairing and tinkering with them impossible to the average Joe?
Now what he said got me thinking. Back when I was younger I remember my dad buying old second hand cars and spending more time with the bonnet up than driving them but nowadays if something goes wrong, you just drop it in to a garage where a dude with a computer runs a program that tells him where the fault should be.
Has putting all these computer engine management systems in cars today made repairing and tinkering with them impossible to the average Joe?