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Reminds me of my car... it's a 1979 Toyota Land Cruiser. I found the owner's manual online and it's surprising what was expected of an automobile owner 30 years ago: lubricating the chassis, servicing the oil filter (not changing, but dismantling and cleaning the parts), lubricating the distributer, differentials, changing electrolytes, etc.. It's like back in the day... men were men... even if they were dorky men with computers.

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Minis had to have 'minor service' every 5000 km, and I think it's good practice to have a good look at your car every few thousand anyway. One day I spotted a cracked front disc like that, in an emergency situation that might have been a real problem.

I'm not sure what you mean with 'changing electrolytes', I think you refer to filling up the battery with distilled water, electrolyte is not normally replaced afaik.

Similarly, we're not really making chip diagrams any more so much as designing them with the aid of computers. Unless there's some giant EE-geek slave trade which uses thousands of people to draw the billions of transistors out, and double check them.

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