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It takes about five years to learn the skills needed to pull a diesel engine out of a Ford Super Duty truck — and the country isn’t training enough people to do it, Farley said.

Perhaps this is a sign that these trucks are overly complicated?

>It takes about five years to learn the skills needed to pull a diesel engine out of a Ford Super Duty truck — and the country isn’t training enough people to do it, Farley said. Perhaps this is a sign that these trucks are overly complicated?
[–] • 5 pts

Titus nailed it. If you have to lift the engine to change a sparkplug, change the oil, something is wrong. If your design philosophy is to render your vehicle so complex it cannot be serviced by the owner, something is wrong. I like ABS brakes, and a few other features, but the complexity needs to be walked back.

[–] • 1 pt

100%

And whatever happened to on-the-job training for fields like this? Why should a kid have to spend 5 years training and accumulating debt to work on trucks? Why not spend a couple years at a technical high school to get the basics and then getting a job that will train you the rest?

It's worth noting that some of this complexity is essentially mandated by the government to meet over zealous safety and EPA standards. These regulations need to be scaled back to allow automakers more design freedom.

[–] • 2 pts

Perhaps they all shouldn't have made cars giant computers.

[–] • 3 pts (edited )

Perhaps they all shouldn't have made cars giant computers.

In the future, all Fords will be designed with a tiny compartment above the front right wheel-well, where a small H-1B visa holder will sit, to provide constant tech support for the giant computer already housed in the car.

[–] • 1 pt

Gonna need a dedicated shit basin then.

[–] • 0 pt

And a cell connection who he can call your grandmother and shame her

[–] • 1 pt

I see a lot of online bitching about the prices but not a lot of people calling for removal of the insane EPA and safety standards that drive costs up.

[–] • 1 pt

5 years to pull an engine out? What?? The government can train a fighter pilot in that amount of time.

These fools are on some shit..