99 4.6 spark plugs?
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Joined: Jul 2004
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From: Easton, Pa.
rm, good to hear your position. Go Rush , Shawn, Mike S., B.O'R, FNC.
The real point is, the trucks and cars are so loaded with electronic control that the average owner cannot work on them with any real effectivness except stumble luck.
This allows the dealers to charge what seems to be in excess of what common sense dictates. Much of it is based on the fact that they are in biz to service and sell. For that there is a big investment in man power that is supposed to know how to repair these cars and trucks, facility etc that cost a bundle to support, unlike a small shop in compairison.
Of course $80 is to much to read common codes out of a DTC port, but that's the way is washes out, but back to the dealer tech again; he is intruppted from more involved work to read the codes so the dealer makes up for that.
Hint: For most of you, a scanner costing less than $50 reads most of codes an owner would be capable of dealing with. It's called an...eReader...found at places like Harbor Freight. No controls on it. Let it read the codes 4 times and it auto clears them. Will even give Hex codes at times but if you can't decypher them, they mean nothing. A good scanner for a few clams.
Anyways, cheers. We ave a long way to go and a short time to get there.
Keep on pickin.
The real point is, the trucks and cars are so loaded with electronic control that the average owner cannot work on them with any real effectivness except stumble luck.
This allows the dealers to charge what seems to be in excess of what common sense dictates. Much of it is based on the fact that they are in biz to service and sell. For that there is a big investment in man power that is supposed to know how to repair these cars and trucks, facility etc that cost a bundle to support, unlike a small shop in compairison.
Of course $80 is to much to read common codes out of a DTC port, but that's the way is washes out, but back to the dealer tech again; he is intruppted from more involved work to read the codes so the dealer makes up for that.
Hint: For most of you, a scanner costing less than $50 reads most of codes an owner would be capable of dealing with. It's called an...eReader...found at places like Harbor Freight. No controls on it. Let it read the codes 4 times and it auto clears them. Will even give Hex codes at times but if you can't decypher them, they mean nothing. A good scanner for a few clams.
Anyways, cheers. We ave a long way to go and a short time to get there.
Keep on pickin.