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Imagine being a modern car engineerThe first thing home Depot says is we need to computerise everything on a CanbusBut y...
21/12/2025

Imagine being a modern car engineer

The first thing home Depot says is we need to computerise everything on a Canbus

But you can't write the software yourself

Nah you buy some Unit from Denso and Boshe or someone that's been adapted to about 7,000 cars before yours

Then you have to add every new feature under the sun as dictated by the Crash Test people in a country that doesn't even make cars anymore

And you can't invent those systems either

You just have to implement the systems

Then as a Manufacturer you don't even make the wiring harness.

No those are made and shipped in from Mexico and the sensors are made in Thailand or maybe Korea or Canada

Then it's shipped in Boxes

And you really don't have any time to test it because the regulations change randomly and if it's not in there by April you'll get a 1 star ANCAP rating.

Then someone from the 4WD magazine takes your alternator and ploughs it through mud destroying it

It overheats and disintegrates

Then the first marketing images you get is the Car on a Truck with all the customers laughing at it

And because there's no power that Canbus completely fails

And all the lights ANCAP forced you to add for safety light up proving the whole thing is a pile of junk

Who is at fault here?

I don't blame Ford

I blame ANCAP

We should get rid of those duds

Oh and if that's not bad enough your selling Rangers to Ranger Owners that will drive the car into deep salt water then wonder why it rusts before making Tik Tok videos about it

21/12/2025

Why do 4WD manufacturers put the Alternator in the bottom of the motor?

Discuss

Ford is in trouble.They just did a $19.5b dollar write down on their EV business.After losing $13B on EVs since 2023.The...
21/12/2025

Ford is in trouble.

They just did a $19.5b dollar write down on their EV business.

After losing $13B on EVs since 2023.

They’re cancelled the F-150 Lightning.

It was too hard to make.

Jim Farley now claims that larger EVs will never make money.

So Ford is pivoting back to petrol, diesel and hybrids.

They tried slapping batteries into gas framed vehicles and it failed dismally.

Theyre also accepting defeat on autonomy.

They simply don't have the technology.

So they've decided to just stay the Ice Market for as long as they can.

Fair strategy.

But if thats how you want to play , at least make them not breakdown in mud

This could be good for Ford.

We've all been there.Just not in Mums Mazda.
21/12/2025

We've all been there.

Just not in Mums Mazda.

We built an industrial age based on cheap carbon based fuel.You walk around a country town and you see that fact with th...
21/12/2025

We built an industrial age based on cheap carbon based fuel.

You walk around a country town and you see that fact with the Dirty GQs rusting on the front lawn.

Those machines are still with us.

But the economics have changed.

$2 a litre isn't practical on a common wage.

And it'll get worse.

Day in day out. They'll march us towards the EVs.

But our politicians have no idea what scale is.

An EV is 65k.

A proper solar battery system is probably 30k id done properly.

You won't get change from 100k to transition.

But no one has the 100k.

China knows this because they're scaling everything

And we're scaling nothing.

It's just engineering now.

Electricity is money now.

And we don't have enough.

When you find out the Premiers Husband got nabbed drink Driving -- And your record is clean
20/12/2025

When you find out the Premiers Husband got nabbed drink Driving --

And your record is clean

Well I just did a 3.5 hr drive that Took me 5.0 hrs.I actually did an experimentI was in a 100km /hr zone and I just sta...
20/12/2025

Well I just did a 3.5 hr drive that Took me 5.0 hrs.

I actually did an experiment

I was in a 100km /hr zone and I just started going slower - to 90. Then 90 to 80. Then 80 -70.

And the Entire Stream of Victorians before didn't Overtake. They all just drove happily how fast I was driving.

Where is the Anger!?? Victoria has honestly given up.

And as for fast Food - they should call it SlOW food.

I'm looking forward to the robots taking over.

All the staff just stand there with no awareness to idea of what's going on.

Everything takes forever.

It's like when it gets busy they go even slower because they know people expect to wait longer when it's busy

They don't hustle at all.

Same incompetent speed always.

Victoria is basically finished as a serious place.

I sold my Navara a month ago nowAnd do you know what's really sad?I haven't even been to a single car yard to consider w...
19/12/2025

I sold my Navara a month ago now

And do you know what's really sad?

I haven't even been to a single car yard to consider what to get next

I don't even have a car on the shopping list

Nothing excites me

I mean what is there that's good now (?)

Name a single car on the Australian market that is worth it - that's new (?)

I think the only one that's of any interest is the Tesla Model Y because it can drive itself so you don't even have to worry about driving through the Junk Traffic in Melbourne

And that's not an endorsement of it

It just recognition of how bad Melbourne is and it's simply a way to better tolerate the mass packed population that's there now

You ain't driving a manual anything

And all the diesel cars are just a stuffed DPF

Nothing has any power

And fuel is $2.00 a litre every other day

Why spend $20 to drive 100km on in Melbourne?

Worst value ever

At best your better off buying an Old GU/JQ/Wrangler for your 4WD trips

And just skip them for the city

That's my thoughts

But then you realize the fuel savings doesn't offset the savings from EV depreciation

So I'm just driving the $800 XJ around suffering with no Air Conditioning

But at least it makes lots of noise and makes you feel alive and you don't have to remember to plug it in all the time

Just rock up to the servo once a week is all

And no one will steal it

And if you crash it, whatever

Imagine paying 100k for a 2.8L 79 now 🤣

Then paying how much to upgrade it with CIO holders

It's just over

The social media ban is greatAll I see now is all the kids riding dirt bikes around my neighbourhoodThe kids are kids ag...
19/12/2025

The social media ban is great

All I see now is all the kids riding dirt bikes around my neighbourhood

The kids are kids again

And to all those that say this is unsafe,

At least my family are not drink drivers

CPI data came out at 2.7%Cost of living is.... Only cars and gas now 🤣
19/12/2025

CPI data came out at 2.7%

Cost of living is.... Only cars and gas now 🤣

Ford Lost 19.5 Billion Dollars on EVsAnd they just folded and gave upThen Chris Bowen signed all of Australia up to the ...
18/12/2025

Ford Lost 19.5 Billion Dollars on EVs

And they just folded and gave up

Then Chris Bowen signed all of Australia up to the same idea really

And he's got the same problem

But he's not giving up

I wonder if Chris has any KPIs for his plans (?)

Like do the measure the results and outcomes?

Its like they just want to wreck things

This doesn't look good...If you know what this means you know what this means
18/12/2025

This doesn't look good...

If you know what this means you know what this means

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