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Old 01-08-2019, 09:42 AM   #20
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Originally Posted by WNDSRFR View Post
The Japanese equivalent of my local yocals? I would tend to believe that most of the car is assembled by robots that assemble it in a precise orderly procedure. And it's the only thing they do. My local yocals mostly work on Corollas and Tundra's. And I think that the more seals, gaskets and such that they touch increases the odds of something new leaking.
But that's just my opinion.
I suppose the engine assembly could be robotic, that had not occurred to me.

Primarily I just meant that assembling these parts isn't that difficult, its primarily just time-consuming and a matter of having the correct tools. Heck, reading through the instructions, I'm pretty sure I could do it in a fully equipped shop and I definitely qualify as a local yocal.

They are also requiring (or maybe its recommending) that it be done by an appropriately trained and skilled craftsman.

In the end though, I know different people have different levels of comfort with these things. In the end (at least in my case) we're talking about a $12,000 car at this point so I can only expect so much.
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