Re: Remote Locks

["checksix3 <jetjock11@xxxx>" <jetjock11@xxxx>]

David, thanx for understanding the original intent of my post
and not reponding in a emotional way. I agree with almost everything 
you say. Zilla products are the leading edge for those who must (or 
choose) to go that route and I never meant to slight them.

I don't feel what I do to my car will lower it's resale value except 
to a purist. In fact I feel the contrary. Anyone with D (or 
engineering) smarts will appreaciate the methods and materials I use. 
Those who don't will simply enjoy a much more reliable, safer, and 
less maintenance intensive car. I have received many offers for the 
car and recently had difficulty turning one down.

My work is fully documented and inserted into a seperate manual.
Everything done is at least as good as the original documentation and 
much better in many cases. (Some of it is Qcad and Solidworks 
generated.) Many parts (standard units currently available) were 
purchased in double quanities in case they should ever fail in the 
far future. 

These include the alarm and door launching components. They now 
reside as spares, along with a complete bill of materials and 
calibration or adjustment specs/instructions where required. I assure 
you, the next owner will have nothing to fear. The difficult parts 
(engineering and installaton) are done, only troublshooting may be 
required down the road. The wiring and much of my other work on car 
employs materials used in the aerospace industry. It's all very Hi-
Rel stuff, I have lots of it lying around because I maintain two 
aircraft. Personally, I feel using this quality only adds to the 
car's reliability and technical aura.

Even if the next owner is not technically inclined the documentaion 
is more than adequate for anyone with skills to easily fathom what 
was done. I designed and built semiconductor process equipment for 20 
years. That work involved lots of technical writing, maintenance, 
design and materials engineering along with fabrication. I'm damn 
anal to boot. (And a bit long winded at times. ;-)

I've also built high performace kit aircraft. Frankly, I don't much 
enjoy working on cars but I feel comfortable with most anything this 
one could throw at me. 


--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "David Teitelbaum <jtrealty@xxxx>" 
<jtrealty@xxxx> wrote:
> You make very good points for doing things yourself while 
> acknowledging the benefits of the Zilla products.