I don't care if it's in the name of progress or some new corporate hire trying to morph things into there vision. Its a leadership failure no doubt. Was a great forum with TONS of detailed info collected since the mid 90s
Cars are complicated no denying it. Hell my love of cars drove me to my love of fourwheelin. Both of which will be life long pursuit. I feel to work in today's world information is king. IF you want to successfully diagnose and repair cars you need 3 things: The right tools, the right information, and the right attitude. I'm not saying iatn sinking is the end of the world, but damn the concept of leaving well enough alone has creeped into the territory of if it aitn broke fix it until it is!
I'm gonna keep bitchin...The other day I was in a antique store and found some old books on auto repair from the 60s. I bought them all and don't feel like I wasted a dime! There is no corporate take over or the selling of big data that will ever take the physical information in those books. Yes they're old and I don't work on old junk but still I will have those pages of information until some physical cataclysm takes them. Today there are few books everything is organized electronically on Mitchele, Alldata, etc. What happens when the power goes out, they go out of business, get sold, solar flare for fucks sake. I use to document repairs in the past but stopped because of the time it took to compile and put to words all the datastream screen shots, wave forms and diagrams. Guess Im gonna fire that habit back up. This just solidifies the fact that out little electronic worlds are not built to last. Thousands of pictures on phones and computers, tens of thousands of comments and likes. Life is more than this intangible bullshit.
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