No reason a carb shouldn't last almost forever as long as it's given correctly filtered fuel. They only go wrong when people mess about with them when they don't know what they're doing. 90% of carb faults are from sticking float valves which you can fix with a tap to the bowl lol....They last FAR FAR longer than fuel pumps, injectors, idle actuators, air control valves, lambda sensors. All the parts needed to keep the fuel injection running properly.

Fag packet adjustments hahah. When did you last see a bike with a set of points ??

For the last two years I've been diagnosing faults using computers and diagnostics kits. Fault codes are useless if you don't know how decode them.

And bikes generate random codes all the time. For loads of reasons. When I'd service a bike and read the fault memory, it could have 15-20 faults recorded and there be NOTHING wrong with the bike. Let your battery run flat and you will get endless control unit faults. Plug an accessory into a socket at the wrong time and it will tell you your central frame electronics is miss-communicating with your Kombie etc. TOTALLY misleading if you're not experienced with them.. It's really not road side stuff at all.

And these hand held readers generally do is just give you numbers unless you want to carry a big stupid tester with a laptop. Hardly lightweight travel.

And if your lucky enough to extrapolate the data correctly, where are you going to get that fuel pump controller, idle actuator or abs speed sensor from ???

An older bike will generally run on any coil if need be, carb can be fixed by anyone who can be bothered to clean it, you can jump or push start it with a flat battery and they are generally far more tolerant to low grade fuel, shit oil and abuse.


But anyway.. There are different trains of thought. Both have their pro's and cons..

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Rode some bikes.
Fix them for a living.
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