This HAS to be a worry

alan s · Post by **alan s** » 12 Jan 2008, 20:42

No wonder the French voted this down.
What a blatant case of "looking after" your mates at the expense of the general community.
This bunch seem to be jackbooting their way over everybody and everything over there.

http://www.r2rc.co.uk/home/index.php

Anybody heard much about it?

Alan S

jeremy · Post by **jeremy** » 12 Jan 2008, 21:32

I suppose the overpaid and over educated bureaucrats in the EEC didn't see that one coming!

Of course one answer would be for people to stop buying new cars and keep their old dogs going for another year or two. I can't help thinking that such an approach would solve the problem rather quicker than any legislation that the overpaid might come up with.

What you can be sure of is that gradually the trade will find ways round the electronics - they've found ways round everything else so far.

James.UK · Post by **James.UK** » 19 Jan 2008, 12:44

I have never been happy with the idea of a computer programme being put into cars by the manufacturers.. How do we know what's in the programme? Built in faults for example?

I cleaned the throttle assembly out on my Honda, 2 hours work ish, but getting the car to start afterwards was a nightmare due to the ECU programme!! In the end I had to leave the battery off overnight, and then drive like a boy racer for an hour to get the car to perform as it should..

On the bright side, I love my lil ZX to bits coz it has NO ECU and don't break down!! .. heh heh..

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