diy maintainable car by design

beerismygas · 2005-05-08T15:01:41+00:00

Its interesting to note that unlike cars, PC design is completelybased ease of assembly/maintanability/upgrade, people dont choose a PCfor their color or modern shape if it means it will be hard tochange/upgrade its internal parts.Zero Insertion Force chip sockets,plug in cards, air cooling, 100% standardisation of parts means anyonewith basic knowledge can build their own PC in minutes.why arent cars made this way, or at least one car?I am sure many of uswould appreciate this idea (ok maybe some commercial mechanics wouldnt)has there ever been a car designed with the DIY mechanic as priority?Idont know what size of market there is but it would be interesting if acar was marketed which forgoes revenues from its service department inanticipation of greater sales to DIYersA car which with a basic tool set could be used to do most body/enginerepairs and tune for MOT yourself (incl emission control):-screw in windows and door panels-bolt on body panels-large engine bay, with everything that can leak in prominent easy tochange places-no perishable by design stuff like rubber CV boots, gas suspension,auto tranny-engine managment system which you can connect directly to your PC andre-tune yourself-change clutch with engine/tranny in car-closable inspection holes everywhere-air cooled engine-starter handle (we have all wanted one of these at some point oranother)ok basically i am taking some major aspects of car design back 40years, but if its good for PCs wouldnt it be good for cars?would you buy one?

May 08, 2005 121 Replies

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Peter Hill 21 years ago

All new cable has dates printed on it. Sorta gives the date of installation away. But clearly it was a repair.

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DervMan 21 years ago

So you've not noticed the difference between a pinking Siecento and an Aston Martin DB9?

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