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Originally Posted by gghaggis

With regards to the mechanical versus electronic, in the case of moving-part components, I'd agree that electronic designs are inherently more reliable than their mechanical counterparts, but electronic components tend to fail catastrophically, mechanical ones tend to fail gracefully. This can sometimes give the appearance of the mechanical component being more reliable.

The other aspect is that in most vehicles advice of mechanical failures are relayed to the driver via electronic displays so there is the perception it is the electronics causing the problems - exacerbated by poor software writing compounding the issue such as brake light failure causing the car to have an unnecessary hissy fit.

The reality is that it is very rare to actually have an ECU failure but quite common to have sensors that are more than often mechanical fail, or have mechanical components such as compressors, park brakes, EGRs etc fail but are reported electronically.

The perception is not often based on reality.

Garry

Garry