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Originally Posted by oldbmw
I see lots a "good" cars written off because it is too expensive to fix their electrics. How is that being "green".
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I'd agree with that - and it's not just the "OMG" parts either (the expensive engine management bits). I'm not sure I know anyone, in the trade or not, who's got as good a grasp of car electrical systems and how to fault-find them as they have of mechanical components and far more electrical issues tend to be abandoned rather than fixed; at least until it becomes an MOT issue anyway.
Maybe the 60's were Triumphs best decade; I don't really know as I didn't know anyone who had better than wrecks (and it's unfair to judge on those) until the early 70's, but our collective experience between '70 and '76 wasn't good. We did a lot of Euro touring in those years and never had more than trivial problems with anything Japanese but we never had anything less than a serious issue with a number of Triumphs - clutch failure, crank failure, that kind of thing. When the bike had to be recovered for the third trip in a row (and this was a new bike, still in warranty at the beginning anyway) you tend to lose faith in the engineering. The replacement Honda had no such issues.
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