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Cars, They Don’t Break Like They Used To

Margaret J. Krauss
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90.5 WESA
Mike Kirsch, an auto mechanic at Brunner’s Garage on the South Side, turns his attention to a late model Honda. “It's not as noisy as a garage used to be because now everybody buys electric, battery powered impacts and tools,” he says.";s:3:

Mike Kirsch has been working at Brunner’s Garage on the South Side for more than 43 years. Over his career, car repair has changed quite a bit, he says. Even smaller jobs, like replacing headlight bulbs or rearview mirrors, have become more time consuming and expensive. But it is not all bad. “New cars … don’t break like they used to.”

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