You don't understand why mechanics should get paid so little until you pay them to look at your car and you give them the issue and they come back with "nope it drives fine" and upsell you unrelated shit because they couldn't be assed to pull the parts and INSPECT THEM FOR ISSUES, nope "the ECU says it's fine so it is".
And then you drive off and it gives you the same issue 2 days later.
It's like expecting McDonald's employees to make $20 an hour when they fuck up your order 2 times in a row and take 30 minutes to make it.
The normie thought process is very simple: the minute you see a fancy ass word in the subject your brain shuts down and goes WOAH I'M NOT QUALIFIED FOR THAT I NEED A QUALIFIED EXPERT ON THAT
So my car is on the verge of a breakdown due to a certain repair (P0401/P2002, if you know you know) that is either $3,000 or a "fix" that no car repair shop will touch without fear of getting raped by unelected bureaucrats. Unfortunately it also needs a coolant flush, transmission fluid change, brake fluid change, and I don't have that cool family member/friend who works on cars and has a lift to do this myself. Essentially, with cars I'm at the mercy of overworked, underpaid wagies who will deliberately refuse to look at the issue and really hammer home the repair shop stereotype they try to tell you isn't real, and it's a car that nobody on this side of the pond is familiar with.
Even the car forum guys who usually will have fixes will tell you to parts cannon it bro.
Should I keep the car and be sent to the cleaners (and have all my savings wiped out for a while, and doom myself to the wagie cage) or should I get a different shitbox, and if so what shitbox should I get? The problem is with bidenomics, it's also harder to get a car that's good.
need to get another piece of crap epson pigment ink printer so I can print stickers that don't fade again (my WF-7710 got fucked alignment wise it sucked)
Tfw the only reason I'm into computers is because old hag parents have a "oh no my son will get hurt/$excuse" complex and would actively shit on any hobby that wasn't passively watching the tv