Comments by "Comm0ut" (@Comm0ut) on "You are not permitted to open the hood on your Mercedes!" video.

  1. As a mechanic and technician (jet fighters on down) since the 1970s I could not agree more. The PUBLIC by their ADULT CHOICE to be tech-illiterate ensured this would happen, but intelligence is rare and technical aptitude even less common. Since there is no helping the ignorant masses best to help yourselves with a pragmatic buying strategy including never buying new vehicles unless you are wealthy (it's generally an awful financial choice, I paid off my home(s) instead), never beta-testing (I wait three or four years for a model to prove itself at others expense) and studying what professional line mechanics say about their experience maintaining fleet vehicles. After several years salvages will be populated with organ donors lowering repair costs. If I wanted to know something about Apple products I would defer to Louis Rossmann because his professional technical immersion ensures he knows his shit. I treat other systems likewise. By the time a vehicle reaches marketplace maturity the repairable sort will be well understood and the less-repairable easily excluded. Ubiquity ensures SOME vehicles, typically those in commercial fleet use, WILL be repairable due to professional customer demand. I do not wait until one vehicle needs heavy maintenance to replace it since that interferes with opportunistic purchase. Done right this is surprisingly cheap, not expensive. If you can work on computers you can learn to work on vehicles. Many do both and I'm not special. For example when one truck hydrolocked I had a ready spare debugged, tagged it and drove on. That let me replace the failed engine cheap because there was no time pressure. Anyone can do this (my wife was a helicopter mechanic and my mum worked on the PBY Catalina flying boat line in WWII) so I encourage everyone curious to give it a go. You can do anything if you bring determination. When I eventually get a BEV to play with I'll buy it needing work then learn the system. Remember your first dumpster-dive computer build and how much that taught you? Perhaps your first lawn mower repair? Learning is big fun and the more ya learn the better it gets.
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