1960 memo from GM CEO to engineers.
“We’ll make a new small car so cheap that customers will be dying to trade them in on a more expensive car!”
Works for TPMS too.
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I remember back in the 90’s just removing the bulb for the light… lol
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Years ago my youngest brother drove a Ford Pinto. Typical college student, he had no money. The brakes needed a lot of work but he ignored it. He started using the hand brake. Soon that was all he had!
Somehow our Mom became aware of this and yelled “Get rid of that car”! I think she helped him get a safe car and all was well!
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I couldn’t even see the bolts holding the unit in place so I was kind of at a loss for how to liberate it from the pocket where it was mounted. None of my cutting tools could fit in there except the fire wrench and without being able to watch the torch flame on the fastener, usually bad things happen…
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I had a similar experience except for me, it was a Bobcat I had bought new around 1980. The clutch had felt weird since day one and then one day, as I approached an intersection red light, I pressed the clutch pedal and the entire assembly broke off and was laying on the floor! Fortunately, the brake was able to overcome the engine, lurching to a stop. After I regained my senses and saw what happened, I was able to limp it home using the starter in first gear to get going each time I stopped. The pivot for the pedal assembly had a few blobs of cold weld from where it was attached to the plate so it was destined to fail…
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