complete autocheck disable?

[cobram at juno.com]

 <quattro at isham-research.com> writes:

> also bitches about stuff you can't see.  That might kill you.  
> Frankly, I don't give a stuff about that - but I would care if you
killed 
> your wife or children.

Went outside, the sky was NOT falling on this side of the ocean.  
Lots of things MIGHT kill you, but nothing in the autocheck is a life or
death matter.  Important systems like impending brake problems have their
own very red warning light, hydraulic assist is a nice luxury, but people
seem to have survived for about a century without it.  You're supposed to
check you fluid levels etc. regularly anyway.
The rest of the things that "might" kill you or someone else, are those
that fail without warning, or make their impending failure known by
strange sounds and sensations.  Ball joints, tie rods, lug nuts (bolts),
bad tires, etc. etc. come to mind WAY before anything dealt with in the
Autocheck.
I think you're much more likely to have a catastrophic failure if you put
too much faith in the autocheck system to tell you everything that's
wrong with your car, coming to a roadside ditch near you:  "yeah, it's
had a knocking sound for months, but according to the autocheck the only
thing wrong with the car was it was low on washer fluid."  
Even to this day, vehicles with dozens of onboard computers and hundreds
of sensors, still utilize good ole low tech reliable systems for the
important stuff.

BCNU,
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