SOS fault repair quote - fair or a rip off?

Yern

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Like fathers Grundig Colour TV that got expensive to repair. The dealer replaced large circuit boards and it got rather pricy (£300 at a time, 30+ years ago). Old days you'd swap the valves or solder another capacitor on when they went leaky. Repeat... repeat. He passed and mother started off on it again. I said just get rid of it and buy a new TV. The curse of the integrated TV circuit boards. Now we dont repair, just out it. Something to be said for TV screens now just being monitors rather than cathode ray based. Just need modern day TV reliability in cars....
In the old days when I was a kid (60's) phone our TV repairman. He'd turn up with a couple of old battered suitcases full of valves and take the moulded board off the back of the set. One or two valves replaced and a couple 'twiddled'...fixed, it used to fascinate me. Now the car stops, don't even bother opening the bonnet just call the recovery service. And I used to keep spare points, condenser, coil and a bit of wire in the boot, guaranteed to get you going again!
 
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In the old days when I was a kid (60's) phone our TV repairman. He'd turn up with a couple of old battered suitcases full of valves and take the moulded board off the back of the set. One or two valves replaced and a couple 'twiddled'...fixed, it used to fascinate me. Now the car stops, don't even bother opening the bonnet just call the recovery service. And I used to keep spare points, condenser, coil and a bit of wire in the boot, guaranteed to get you going again!
Mother use to keep the P49 valve or whatever it was and we'd repair the Bush TV ourselves 😂. I did fit a UHF tuner into one of those 625 TVs they would sell without the tuner (UHF ready... just needed the tuner 🫢 fitted... scanning at 625 they evidently thought was half way there. You bought the tuner and connected it up, cheapskate manufacturers sold 625 ready TV with the missing tuner). BBC Two came late to 50 miles outside London. Misspent youth. I was trusted by the parents to do it. Age young. Exchange and Mart the tuner.

Ah the good old days.

Think doing your own VCDS type of scans allows you to do your own diagnosis. Came in handy twice on the pollution sensor once and the ABS sensors once that wrecked the operation of the cameras. Took out the reversing camera and messed up 360. Dealers know of this one effecting the behaviour of the cameras.
 
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