The episode you're referring to is Junkyard Dog, where Kitt was completely and I mean 100% destroyed in an acid pit. It wasnt a question of redoing some bodywork and damaged internals. it was recreating him entirely from scratch. There's a little bit of a difference there I think. And you'll recall that he doesnt have his molecular bonded shell at the end of the 24 hour repair either,
🙌 he made something up to which Devon acknowledged but it’s fake, similar to Terminator 2 when Arnie gives a fake name for the Dog and asks why it’s barking so much and catches out the other person not being John Connors real foster parents