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Hank Rogers[_2_]

wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Aug 2018 22:17:06 -0700, Leonard Blaisdell
> > wrote:
>
>> In article >, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:
>>
>>> Easy to work on too. You could change six spark plugs in six minutes.
>>> Before I put plugs in my car I would trade it in. I have no idea where
>>> they are or how to get to them.
>>
>> Subaru?
>>
>> leo
>
> Many new cars require special spark plugs, available at the
> dealership, they are expensive, like $20 per, and need special
> software to check the gap and are firing properly. On the plus side
> newer vehicles don't need plugs changed for 100,000 miles. There
> really isn't much an owner can do themself on new vehicles, there are
> computerized sensors on everything, even the gas cap. My wife just
> had to buy a new gas cap, something died in it and an idiot light came
> on. If she went to the dealer it would have cost $120 just to put the
> car on their computer and then they'd charge double for the new cap.
> She had purchased one of those thingies that you plug in to a port
> under the dash board and it checks all the computer moduales on the
> vehical and by bluetooth sends a report to her smartphone and she can
> send it to her printer. She did the printout and it indicated the gas
> cap was defective, she ordered a new one from Amazon and replaced the
> old one. I inspected the old gas cap but could see nothing wrong with
> it, probably some internal circuitry died. Anyway with the new cap
> the idiot light went off after running the engine for five minutes...
> Amazon charged $28, the instruction that came with the cap said to run
> the engine for a few minutes giving the module time to scan and
> correct. My thought was that if you go to a full service gas station
> they could easily swap your cap for their defective one... another
> reason to pump your own gas or at least get out of your car and watch.
>

Popeye, now yoose see the trouble yoose caused by humping that gas
filler tube?

Yoose should get a plastic sex doll. Would save yoose wife a lot of
money and grief.