Hi,
How about the ignition power relay located behind the battery? I have three cars with them and have seen some good, bad and ugly with that little black box!
I have even taken the time to refurbish the heat sink paste on all of them. Those connection pins located inside the connector can get corroded as the connector itself is on the downhill side of the component. Since it sits in behind the battery, its one of those things that’s out of sight and out of your mind!
Oh well, that’s life! We get to live with somethings without knowing there was any other better choices and there may not have been any.
Technically it’s a very low maintenance item, except for the usual connector issues that every car has to have.
When you want neatness or accuracy you have to compromise something.
The CPS is even in a harder to reach area, someplace along the crankshaft and not be inside the engine! Ugh! V8 Toyota’s have their starters underneath the intake manifold.
Luckily a CPS has even fewer “ moving parts” electronic wise, and it still fails!
Considering the amount of times they have interacted with signals, we have to expect some minor inconvenience!
Our own bodies do the same things! Sure I have wished I had a third arm or extra hand, but I truly have no idea where I could put one and would be happy with it there! I keep thinking that the navel could be an accessory hole but where OR how would you carry any accessories? (:-) More hands? Nah!
Having pairs of almost everything is about right, because if I double up on the other single things, I would be in real serious trouble!
I’m definitely not over engineered, of which, is a good thing!
Phil
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