Reminds me of how we all end up making our own systems when the default ones fail. My kid's school sends home permission slips on bright orange paper because the white ones kept getting lost in backpacks. It's the same kind of fix, just finding what actually works.

Yeah, the extra labor on those full avionics packages is a killer. We did a similar panel overhaul last year and the wiring alone ate up a ton of unbilled shop time. Future-proofing is smart, but you really feel that labor cost later.

Read a forum post where a guy swore his diesel had rod knock. He replaced the main bearings before finding a cracked flex plate, the noise was just echoing through the block. Makes you want to start with the cheap stuff first.