While private equity may be making some local business owners rich, they’re ruining the customer experience.
While private equity may be making some local business owners rich, they’re ruining the customer experience.
It’s quite a lot cheaper to rewire the car for the more common and cheaper Xenon HID headlight (it’s only £300 2nd hand) but a fairly big job with ZERO support from BMW for the conversion.
UN Regulation 155 and ISO/SAE 21434 are going to require that intra-car communications require some sort of authentication system between computers. It's regulations attempting to get ahead of potential hacks for Vehicle to Everything (V2X) infrastructure.
Unfortunately this likely also means the ability to replace failed ECU's on a car will be only limited to car manufacturers willingness to explicitly authorize a part to be installed into a car, even genuinely OEM parts straight from the manufacturer. Don't know when it comes into force but it's on the way.
For recent remodeling though it turned out my housekeeper’s husband is a carpenter and I just coordinated a number of things myself.
If you are the business then you have incentive to do a good job. I have more faith in getting a quality job done by someone like that.
I used to have an HVAC guy like this. I currently have a plumber and a car repair shop like this. I can DIY the smaller things but I know my limits so it’s frustrating when finding good help is difficult.
People complained a ton about those and how they made cars look ugly.
How long are Teslas sitting in shops waiting for parts, these days?
I have nothing but speculation and wonder if some of this is due to how much we look down on trade jobs in America. The general attitude has been that a kid who goes to a trade school is a failure compared to a kid who goes to college.