[yetibone]

Not a week goes by that I don't want to go find an automotive engineer, and beat them in the face until I feel satisfied, but I don't often get bent out of shape about the lack of concessions towards easier service and repair anymore. I see now that this is the reason I'm in business in the first place; Not everybody can fix this stuff.

I spent a bit of my time early last week with a GM Tech 2, a laptop, and a GM MDI on my tool cart, and during one of those jobs, I was wondering why I had to have over $5000 worth of equipment on hand, and pay the General a subscription fee to replace a driver's door window switch on a Silverado. Seems entirely unnecessary to make a window switch part of the CAN, and not a plug-n-play part, but they did.

Sure, I get angry at some of the jobs that are made harder because of neglect, or abuse by the vehicle's operator (especially landscaping trucks, and equip.) and I'll yell at it, or call it ugly names when a vehicle doesn't cooperate, but I always try to extrapolate the amount of extra time necessary, and supplies needed, and estimate that into the price of the work.