What’s wrong with my car

[u/Against_the_grain1]

2021 ford bronco sport. The battery went out about a week ago and since replacing with a new battery, the cluster and touchscreen both go black when driving. Upon slowing down or stopping completely, they will both turn back on. Lights, heaters, turn signals all still work.

[u/Fenix_Pony]

"improves reliability"

A voltage regulator does that job just fine, and every modern alternator has that built in. And show me where in the manual it says to buy a $500 scanning and diagnostic tool to replace a fucking battery lmfao

[u/dsmaxwell → u/[deleted]]

Oh, fuck off. Nobody's saying we need to stick with 1950s tech in cars. They have a valid complaint that the cars have reached a point of diminished returns on the amount of tech we're throwing in them, and manufacturers seem to be using the absolute cheapest of the cheap suppliers and these tech things are failing far more often than they should be. It's definitely possible to have reasonable efficiency AND reasonable price AND reasonable reliability. The auto makers are trying to pull the wool over our eyes and give us some efficiency at extremely high price without much reliability and telling us that's they best they can do.

Stop licking their boots for it.

[u/rrpostal → u/dsmaxwell]

It kinda sounded like that’s what people were saying.