I've resigned to the fact that not only are Manufactures shortening the life cycle of their Cars, we are now in line with all other household appliances, just buy a new one. Nothing is or can be repaired. Nothing new in that we are just way behind the Americans, I recall over 20 years ago when I was repairing the Computer Controls on Renault Automatics Transmissions my contacts in the States told me that Renault 12s were throwaway cars and nobody bothered to either repair or replace the...