I remember the first CPU equipped car I saw. A 1980ish Datson. The CPU module used a Z80 and all the chips were milspec ceramic. I giggled and wished the owner "Good luck, it won't last till Christmas."
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The car died a decade plus later parked when a dump truck backed over it.
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My wife's former ZX2 has 179K miles on it, engine and tranny ran fine, the rear end was eaten by rust.
I can't imagine a high end American car from 1960 making it that far.?
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Perhaps Volvo adopted CAN before the tech was ready, but our car was so messed up the dealer's diagnostics said there were no hardware failures but the car was unfixable. If kept flashing odd error codes only to change them every few seconds, They'd never seen anything like it.
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It is possible the defective CD changer was jamming the CAN Buss. The dealer didn't charge for the first diagnostics but it'd have been $100 for the second.
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I wonder how "Right to repair" and CAN/LIN/GMLAN are going to work out.
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