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The dipstick is obsolete, just like:

 

  1. Standard Transmissions / clutch pedal
  2. Crank Windows
  3. Carburetor Chokes
  4. Carburetors
  5. Cowl Vents
  6. Wind Wings
  7. Door Lock Knobs
  8. Cigarette Lighters / Ashtrays
  9. Dash Nobs
  10. Battery Caps
  11. Tune Ups
  12. Grease Fittings
  13. Primer Cups
  14. Spark Advance 
  15. Engine Cranks
  16. Hand Signaling
  17. 8 Track / Cassette / CD / LP players
  18. Headlight Brightness floor buttons
  19. Ignition Switches / Keys
  20. Fuel Shut off valves
  21. Running Boards
  22. Carbide Headlights
  23. Brake cable adjustments
  24. Radiator Cap thermometers 
  25. Oil Bath Air Cleaners
  26. Mechanic dash gages
  27. Fuel Sticks
  28. Bench Seats
  29. Hood ornaments (standing up kind)
  30. Hub Caps
  31. Bumper jack slots
  32. Rear mounted fuel filler doors
  33. Full size spare tires
  34. Radio Antenna (stand up kind)
  35. Gas mileage under 20mpg
  36. Bumpers and bumper guards

 

What did I miss?

 

Added:

  1. Distributors
  2. Manual Side Mirrors
  3. Boilers, pilot lights, fire-up valves, blow-down valves
  4. Buzz coils
  5. compression releases
  6. inner tubes
  7. teams of mules to haul you out of the mud
  8. hickory / wooden spokes
  9. Shifter Knobs that screw off

  10. Landau roofs

  11. Continental kits

  12. Pop up headlights

  13. Coachbuilt bodies

  14. Picnic tables (the Brits did these so well)

  15. Tool sets that came with you car

  16. Whitewall tires

  17. Velour interiors

  18. wire wheel covers

  19. Wheel covers in general

  20. Long option lists / custom orders

  21. Vacuum driven wipers

  22. vacuum driven fan on the steering column

  23. 6V electrical system

  24. Generators

  25. Mechanical fuel pumps

 

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28 minutes ago, Peter Gariepy said:

The dipstick is obsolete, just like:

 

  1. Standard Transmissions / clutch pedal
  2. Crank Windows
  3. Carburetor Chokes
  4. Carburetors
  5. Cowl Vents
  6. Wind Wings
  7. Door Lock Knobs
  8. Cigarette Lighters / Ashtrays
  9. Dash Nobs
  10. Battery Caps
  11. Tune Ups
  12. Grease Fittings
  13. Primer Cups
  14. Spark Advance 
  15. Engine Cranks
  16. Hand Signaling
  17. 8 Track / Cassette / CD / LP players
  18. Headlight Brightness floor buttons
  19. Ignition Switches / Keys
  20. Fuel Shut off valves
  21. Running Boards
  22. Carbide Headlights
  23. Brake cable adjustments
  24. Radiator Cap thermometers 
  25. Oil Bath Air Cleaners
  26. Mechanic dash gages
  27. Fuel Sticks
  28. Bench Seats
  29. Hood ornaments (standing up kind)
  30. Hub Caps
  31. Bumper jack slots
  32. Rear mounted fuel filler doors
  33. Full size spare tires
  34. Radio Antenna (stand up kind)
  35. Gas mileage under 20mpg
  36. Bumpers and bumper guards

 

What did I miss?

 

Added:

  1. Distributors
  2. Manual Side Mirrors
  3. Boilers, pilot lights, fire-up valves, blow-down valves
  4. Buzz coils
  5. compression releases
  6. inner tubes
  7. teams of mules to haul you out of the mud
  8. hickory / wooden spokes
  9. Shifter Knobs that screw off

 

What did I miss?

 

Car enthusiasts 

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"The dipstick is obsolete." This is not "Breaking News":

Some car manufacturers recognized this a few years ago. A few examples: In 1928, Packards had an upper and lower petcock. The rule was to fill to the upper, and not let the oil level go below the lower.  The 1928 Hudson Super Six had a small red cap in a sight tube to indicate oil level. The cap was connected by a thin rod to a cork floating in the crankcase. The 1935 Cadillac V8 had a system similar to the one Hudson used. I'm sure there are many other examples. 

 

Anyway, Peter, you have made a fun post. Thanks,

 

Phil

 

1st Edit: By the way, I assert - without evidence to support -  that the examples I mentioned are far more reliable than the modern warning lights. Probably just old age showing. 

 

2nd Edit:  

Year ago, I had a colleague who was less than disciplined on engine maintenance. His oil light burned out and he drove the car to the point where it destroyed itself. He paid to have a new engine installed, but he didn't pay to have the oil light fixed. You can guess the result. Sometimes the weakest link is not the engineering design.

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Just now, pmhowe said:

"The dipstick is obsolete." This is not "breaking news": Some car manufacturers recognized this a few years ago. A few examples: In 1928, Packards had an upper and lower petcock. The rule was to fill to the upper, and not let the oil level go below the lower.  The 1928 Hudson Super Six had a small red cap in a sight tube to indicate oil level. The cap was connected by a thin rod to a cork floating in the crankcase. The 1935 Cadillac V8 had a system similar to the one Hudson used. I'm sure there are many other examples. 

 

Anyway, Peter, you have made a fun post. Thanks,

 

Phil

The new percock is simply an electronic sensor. 

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3 hours ago, Peter Gariepy said:

Gas mileage under 20mpg

All you need is to buy a truck to see under 20 MPG. Not one of these 4 door sedans with an open trunk, a real truck!😁

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Here is an example, I found this by Google, dealer not in my area, and several dealers had the same info:

 

https://www.allensamuelsdodgechryslerjeep.com/2022-ram-2500-mpg/

 

City 12  Highway 18 EPA rated.

City 14 Highway 17  with diesel.

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14 minutes ago, Frank DuVal said:

All you need is to buy a truck to see under 20 MPG. Not one of these 4 door sedans with an open trunk, a real truck!😁

My DD is a 2022 Ram Limited 1500 so yes a 4 door sedan with an open trunk but I use it as a truck.  It replaced a 2011 Ram 2500 Mega Cab and I can say that it tows every bit as well with an open trailer but returns far better fuel economy.  This is the 4th truck since 2004 and by far the most fuel efficient and right about that 20 mpg rating.   And yes it sees everything and anything in the box and in the back seat with the seats folded up.  Now in comparison to the 1977 GMC 1 ton window van that I had at the end of high school that the seller said got 12 mpg city or highway (I think that he was being generous)  there is no comparison and I'm pretty sure that my wife doesn't miss the rust falling down from the windshield header!    

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19 minutes ago, Skvitt said:

Looks like with run-flats, spare tires in general are becoming obsolete.

The one thing I changed on Caddy I had not too long ago Skvitt.  They are like driving on solid steel discs and I trashed them at maybe 14,000 miles.  I believe if they stayed on the car it would be a complete rattlebox by 25,000 miles. 

Hope they either improve the technology or they go the way of plastic windshields...

For the record, good technology that reduces or eliminates frequent maintenance on our moderns is fine with me, more time to spend on the fun stuff.

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At a presentation by 3 manufacturers this summer, one extremely high placed executive strongly hinted at a surprise coming that did not involve electrical power.  I later found out that it was very real as an engineer that is known to me is working on one aspect of it.  I have no other info but that but it makes me believe that the ICE is not completely dead at least as one of the major US manufacturers.

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Dodge was the smartest things ever put on the front of a truck and Ram is one of the dumbest.  Think about it I’m sure you will agree. 
 

Things disappearing- creativity in the style of all cars. Been going that way for years. 
dave s 

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Coachbuilt bodies

 

Picnic tables (the Brits did these so well)

 

Tool sets that came with you car

 

Whitewall tires

 

Full sized spares

 

Velour interiors & wire wheelcovers. Wheelcovers in general

 

Long option lists/custom orders

 

 

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15 hours ago, Peter Gariepy said:

Thank god we still have curmudgeons and sarcasm. 

Curmudgeons and cynics sat on the temple steps 6,000 years ago, condemned the youth and change, while they laid out the scripts for 1/2 hour TV shows. "The only thing that changes is the date."

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1 hour ago, modela28 said:

I hope not!  I'm not ready and neither is the world ready for just EVs.

I don't truly believe EV will completely replace ICE.  But I think in 10 years time what powers new cars will be radically different. Some for the good, some... not so good.  Either way, change is afoot.

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