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Message: <blockquote data-quote="73Eldo" data-source="post: 15781" data-attributes="member: 1735"><p>Its going to be just like the early(ish) EFI cars. The Cadillacs in the 70's had to have special tools and manuals. In the 80's every make (even some models) had their own tools and manuals. By the early 90's it got pretty expensive to be a all around shop because there was so many tools to buy just to do basic diagnostics. That was among the reasons for the OBD2 standard. At least now one tool can do basic engine/ emissions diagnostics. The rest of the car is a whole other story. My 05 dodge has computers in each door that require special software. I would imagine the basic industrial engines are going to have some sort of a standard but the rest of the machine.. who knows. Here in the us the diesel industry is still kind of messed up from them not being ready for the new regulations that kicked in a few years ago. A friend of mine sells fire pumps that are usually diesel powered and his customers have had to delay opening of large stores and office complexes because the engines are on backorder. Are the emissions from the fire pump really an issue since it only runs if the building is on fire? Do you have any idea how much they wanted for the software? I assume the current Bobcats are all 'fly by wire'? And now they are moving to computer controlled wire?</p></blockquote><p></p>