Why is everything so crummy!! warning CAPS have been used

[VetteOwner]

oh i know! all these totally useless chips to control insanely simple things (all u need are the lights, relay and a switch, and a buncha wire) but no they gotta combine a bunch of things into a board and hide it somewhere and not tell anyone what pins do what UNLESS your a mechanic and have mitchel or some other car program on it... and then ohh yea just plug it in the sockets and instead of doing the "oh so hard task" of runnin wire thru the firewall we will just have a computer whip up a program for us!

things just need to be less complicated car wise and less useless junk on cars...(heard the other day some manufacturer designed a rearview mirror that was POWERED! were so fat and lazy in this country lifting our arm to adjust the mirror(what liek once a year) is gettin to be a hassle now we can just use a little knob!)

[rh77]

What grinds my gears is HOOVER! I used to buy nothing but Hoover vacs, made in North Canton, Ohio. They sold out, now I've got a Mexican made POS that burns up belts every month. A Consumer Reports Best Buy for 2004!

Well, I can sympathize with Printers. I've been cursed with bad printers since the Commodore 64's dot-matrix color Epson. The best lately has been an HP Laserjet 1300 or something. Don't get me started on printing at work

Tools, welp, not an expert -- but I have broken tools in half and busted a few knuckles in the process. I don't use enough tools to spend decent money on them. If I can find them in the pile in the garage, then they get used or broken/replaced.

Cars -- welp, the TSX is more complicated than I've imagined. It's off-limits for mods right now. Thank goodness the 'Tegs a '98. Fewer plastic covers and stuff. As far as reliability goes -- who the heck knows anymore. Honda/Acura works for me.

NE-way, if we continue to support cheap-O products from the Big-Box stores, then we get crap. Cheap, short-handled shovels to move crap around. Yeah, bold statement buried in the middle.

Lawnmowers: I inherited one of those Murrays that Vetteowner mentioned -- I can only get it to idle, and start it with an electric drill after 2-minutes of turning. I've taken the carb apart 3-times, no luck -- maybe a good project for the High School students. It's probably worn out. Pretty cool -- self propelled, the handle's in good shape too. But my main one is a 2-year old 6.5-horse Craftsman that's already burning oil . I wanted the Honda, but... hrmf.

Laptops -- rebuilt a few. Older Dells lasted longer, but depended on the model. I'm stuck with HPs these days, which I can get repaired on-site when they eventually break or melt.

Airlines aren't the same, either.

RH77