Posted on 05/06/2022 6:24:41 PM PDT by Libloather
My local Mexi restaurant makes fresh chips several times every day, and their own salsa too.
My bud here in Beverly Hills Mercedes Benz told me this year, MOST options are off the table when they buy 2022’s.
and I went to a Ford dealership, the Super Duty 2022’s which I want for our office CANNOT BE ORDERED. Period. Supply chain issues. The dealership got the memo from Ford HQ weeks ago to stop taking pre-orders. Imagine that. Ford refusing to take your money..
Car dealer lots around me (Indiana) look super sparse. Most inventory is used cars. Chrysler/Jeep/Ram guy looks like he’s closed for vacation. Ford guy has a few new vehicles, but it’s a big store, used to have hundreds.
Why do cars have to have all of that crap?
I lost my backup alarms due to chip shortages 🤪
The horror
‘85 Grand Wagoneer, no chips
It enables me to display phone apps on the vehicle screen.
8 track or cassette player, all the way, baby!!!
Lemme stop at the gas station and buy a road map, too!!
Never used to have this crap on cars. If you wanted it, you could get AC, other than that, you had a little handle that rolled down the window...also a wing window. The controls for the heater and AC were so simple that anyone with a little bit of mechanical skill could fix-just a nob and some cables.
Change your own spark plugs-try that with new cars these days. Could do complete tune ups with just a few wrenches.
The radio was simple to operate.
All this crap and it all goes to hell costing THOUSANDS of dollars to repair..if you can repair it.
I just replaced a thermostat housing on my little pick up. PLASTIC! The GD thing is PLASTIC! Has several hoses running out of it where before, the thermostat housing had just ONE running out of it.
I am with you all the way!
I wonder what the cost would be if they built a car-like my 63 chev bel air with the 230 peanut six in it with three on the tree.
24 MPG and it would run all day at 75MPH. Heck, a 283 or 327 would get over 20 MPG. When you wanted to get around a car you stomped on it and held on.
They could gear them up to run at around 2 thousand RPM and extend the life of the engines.
The Horror!
No Apple thing to play Barry Manilow?
Damn! That’s almost as bad as my Peloton bike being delayed. Life has gotten raw and brutal.
That must be somehow related to their $3 billion loss on their EV gamble.
it allows your apps to run through the car, or a good chunk of them
So people are driving around in their $100K Beemers with a two buck Arduino hack!
Got a new BMW 5 series and it came with android auto. I can e no use fir it so I disbled it and connect to my phone with a plain BT connection. Why would I want to mirror my phone’s screen on my car when it already has NAV, Sirius, spotify, etc built in?
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