Who called ISF to tune-up their TV's?

[AVGuys Houston]

Originally Posted by Blu-Dog

Interesting.

I own a BMW M Roadster, a C5 Corvette, a Mercury Marauder, and a Nascar F150 truck, and through the kids, various other performance equipment.

Every one of them was delivered to me meeting manufacturer specifications. They are all bone stock, to this day. No Brembo brake kits, or Dinan or Eaton or whatever blowers, no chip modifications, nothing. They all run like scalded dogs, at the turn of the key. I maintain them - and most important, I know at what point scheduled service needs to be performed.

Well then, your not our client, you don't need, or want anything better than stock.

Originally Posted by Blu-Dog

Now, if I had bought my cars, and they didn't run right - somebody chipped it, to change the torque curve, and my mileage was terrible - I'd have had that problem fixed before delivery, by the dealer. At no charge to me. That's not the spec.

Agreed!
But TV's don't run right, because the manufacturer "chipped it, to change the torque curve, and made the mileage was terrible" so they can sell more on the brightly lit warehouse showroom floor.
But you can't take your TV back to the dealer and demand that they fix the color accuracy. The TV company says it is within spec, straight from the marketing dept. Engineering knows it's not right, but they didn't get the final decision before manufacturing built it.

Originally Posted by Blu-Dog

Anyway, my cars don't go to the track. I paid good money for them, for what they are, and each, I'm sure, is as good as the day I bought it.

No pissin match here!
You don't want optimized performance.
You don't go to the track.
Yet without a piece of test equipment at the dealership, you cannot tell if any of your cars are within 10% of the spec from the day you bought them. Can you feel the difference between 300 and 270 HP?
How about 12 seconds or 13.2 seconds?

Originally Posted by Blu-Dog

However, without them, owners of these sets are hopelessly unable to ever get the full value they paid. This goes for every set, from every manufacturer, that has ever been built, anywhere in the world.

Every set owner harbors this secret fear: What if my set has gone out of calibration? How will I know? It may look perfect - but what if it isn't? What if 6500 degrees Kelvin is really 6425? Am I losing the value I paid for?

Without some form of measurement, no one really knows what they are getting or how close to the original specifications they are at.
Do you frequent the drag racing forums and brag about how your cars don't need to be tuned up for 'better' performance?
Everyone has there own form of excess...
I'll bet you like fine wines or good cigars or something that's not worth what you pay for them, but somehow you can justify it.
Let the others enjoy talkin about toys, and don't rain on their parade, or challenge your mechanics ability to earn a living from your trips to the dealership to keep your car in 'spec'

By the way...how often do you change the oil in your cars? Maybe even when it doesn't need it... or do you have a machine that can tell when the viscosity has changed or when the particles per millileter are past specifications?