Auto Makers Attack Right-to-Repair

[TheBlackAdder]

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Apple & John Deere are really pushing the elimination of Right to Repair.

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[PoliticAverse]

1. Way to destroy a brand John Deere. n/t

[TheBlackAdder]

7. Farmers buy a million dollar machine, a logic card breaks, it's down for a week over a 60 cent part.

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They used to supply schematics and allow parts to be sold to independent repair shops.

Now, you have to have a JD tech come to your farm and farmers pay thousands to tens of thousands.

If the farmer fixes it himself, they void the entire warranty on the equipment, even if the repair is not anyway related to a future failure.

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[mitch96]

2. A buddy of mine who is handy around cars won't buy a new one b/c of computer locks on

new parts. A window motor went out on a friends Volvo. Went to a junk yard and got the part out of a wreck. Put it in but did not work.. Turns out any new parts have to be "ok'd" by the service department in the auto's computer. Cost him $50 to have Volvo hook up the to the OBD-II port, and click "ok"..... what a ripoff..
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[dalton99a]

3. This bullshit should be illegal

[Rebl2]

5. So true

Can you imagine a farmer having to wait days to get their farm equipment back so they can harvest a crop, knowing they may have a short window to harvest. It could mean not only a loss of time, but loss of a crop which equals a big loss of income.

[mitch96]

8. Especially when yuo shell out over 100 grand for a tractor..

Sometimes i think the Amish had it right😜
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[marble falls]

9. Loved my Volvo's, but if I wanted to tune them I could not use OTS parts, because they'd ...

... make OEM parts fail. Supposedly because there were resistors in OEM parts that weren't on the OTS parts.

I was in the Volvo dealer buying parts and I asked why they were so expensive. The parts guy said, "Because they're twice as good!"
I said, "Twice as good and three times more expensive."

[alwaysinasnit]

4. k&r for visibility

[ItsjustMe]

6. An important message from Louis Rossmann

More & more companies are serializing parts together, ensuring that end users & independent repair shops will be unable to repair them.

[Mosby]

10. +1

[mahatmakanejeeves]

11. Automakers Are Fighting 'Right To Repair' Laws Again

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Automakers Are Fighting ‘Right To Repair’ Laws Again

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