My wife bought one new in 1979. It was white with a blue bird on the hood. It had an automatic trans. It was fun to drive and would get sideways quick taking off fast. I liked it.
In the 60 years I have worked on cars, I have never disconnected the battery. If I'm working on a part of the car that needs electoral disconnected, I pull the fuses to that part of the car. Never had a problem. And that includes replacing air bag modules.
Being the same age as old people (78). I've been working on cars a long time. My dad knew nothing about cars. He couldn't change spark plugs even if he could have found them. I had to learn it all by myself. At an early age, someone said why pay someone a lot of money to screw up your car, when...
OK, update on this problem. Took the car to the dealer first week of November. Codes were P0171. P0300 and P0133. They said they couldn't duplicate any problems with these codes., Erased the codes and told me well the codes are not there now. I said they were when I brought it in and you erased...
I did all that maint. on my cars for years till I had a stroke back in January of this year. I have replaced front struts on my car since then and put in a new coil pack as well. I've slowed down a lot though.