Our cars keep getting smarter, especially their diagnostics

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Updated November 25 2020 - 1:48pm, first published 10:00am

Back in the '80s when cars started getting relatively simple computers to control essential functions like the ignition spark timing and the fuel delivery, a common belief, or complaint, was that they'd be harder to repair and work on than the ol' carby-fed and distributor-ignited engines of yore.

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Sam Hollier

ACM Group Advertising Features & Special Publications