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Forogar wrote:
There's hardly a car I've owned that hasn't needed a new engine or gearbox or
something else mechanical such as suspension - I have never had an electronics
failure


Ah, well, you don't drive Italian!

Seriously, you can not break the engines or gear boxes on them, they are unbelievably solid. The electrics suck though, as did the steel for the body in the old days, though both are better today.

Personally, in the last say 15 years, I have had two alarms fail, an ECU connector fail, two relays fail, and an oil sensor fail.

In that time I have had a driveshaft joint fail, and a cam chain snap (BMW, very old, piece of junk, running it till it died kind of thing), but never anything seriously mechanical.


Anyway, yo have incurred the wrath of the car god, so watch out! Smile | :)
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