Wednesday, Oct 21, 2015 at 00:15
Greg - Heh heh, I think everyone has electronic problems stories like yours.
There are still many people repairing vehicles who have inadequate knowledge and inadequate equipment, when it comes to todays complex electronics.
Another BIL, a farmer, had a VN Commodore in the mid-1990's that kept getting slower and slower until it wouldn't go over 80 kmh.
He regularly took it to the local tractor dealership, where the mechanics were convinced it was the fuel pump. The fuel pump was replaced, it still wouldn't go.
So, the mechanics reckoned it must be the coils or the spark plugs, so new ones were fitted. Still no difference.
Then they reckoned it was the ECU, so a new ECU went in. Still nothing changed.
This went on for weeks and weeks, until the total repair bill got to $3500, and the BIL got thoroughly sick of the "try this and replace that" technique of the tractor mechanics.
He finally realised he was dealing with amateurs with little by way of diagnostic equipment, and took it to a major Holden dealer in
Perth.
The dealer hooked the Commodore up to the big
shop diagnostic machine, and 5 mins later, back came the verdict.
"The filter inside the fuel tank is blocked!"
Not one of the blokes who had worked on the car, had even known there was a filter inside the tank!
BIL picked the car up an hour later, it only cost him about $200, and he reckoned it went like a new one!
He sure learnt his lesson, and he doesn't take his vehicles to tractor mechanics any more! LOL
Cheers, Ron.
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