[pard68]

I am an amateur mechanic, but have done a great deal of very technical work. My only formal training is three years of high school shop classes, everything else I learned under or in a car. The newest thing I have worked on is a 2022 GMC Sierra. Seemed to be pretty much the same as my 2003 Chevy Silverado.

You are definitely correct about foreign (non-USA) makes. My wife had an Audi when we got married. I own a small toolbox of tools specific to her Audi S4 that I will never use again, but that was a 2006, so this issue predates 2013 for the makes that it is true about.

Admittedly, I try to avoid fuel injected vehicles. So I don't go out of my way to work on new things.

[dclowd9901]

You’re right, I was speaking specifically to euro and Japanese makes (I’m biased toward those makes, so I didn’t even think of qualifying it).

I do a lot of auto work, between restoring cars to repairing my own. But modern fuel injection systems run on a razor’s edge of tolerances and often getting to some part requires dismounting a turbo, which is all sorts of pain in the ass, and not something I’d recommend for an amateur.

[calvinmorrison]

You say that but the new stuff is actually way more tolerant. Once we got electronic fuel, timing and spark in one ECU things totally changed. You want finicky? Deal with a solex carb!

[cout]

I had a vehicle with a mikuni solex carb. It was easier to swap it with a Weber than it was to fix the carb.

[dclowd9901]

Haha fair. I can even think of some like the continuous injection systems on old VWs

[calvinmorrison]

Ah dude those bosch CIS systems are hot potato garbage. I mean its a cool concept its just so fiddly. Once we got LH though things got a lot better. But that brings me back memories

[pard68]

Ya the cis/kjet thing is something I have always thought was neat and also am glad that the vehicles I buy and work on don't have them!

[calvinmorrison]

they're neat and they're fine-ish usually once running but they're a fricking pain to setup especially since a lot of the OEM you are supposed to have don't exist anymore. Like the book says 'oh plugin this or that' and its just... yeah no sorry

The only cool thing is the wiring harnesses and everything are fully analog so like, you have fuel injection mechanically, i mean that in itself is cool. it's just a pain

[pard68]

Ya if imports are your thing you're definitely going to have a few tool chests of one-off tools!

I have always stuck to American muscle and diesel tractors. The amazing simplicity of those machines has always attracted me. I love that I can hold a complete understand of the entire vehicle in my head. I'm sure you can even for modern vehicles, but they're not simple at all!