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Right to Repair

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Whether it be electronics, automobiles or medical equipment, the manufacturers should not be able to horde “oem” parts, render your stuff useless if you repair it with aftermarket parts, or hide schematics of their products.

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'The car companies want to put small guy out of business.'

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[–] [email protected] 125 points 5 months ago (3 children)

What car you clickbait bastard?

[–] [email protected] 113 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

2024 Ram 3500, but it's an industry push from NASTF so probably more will come soon.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Fuck these guys. If we live in a car society we need to be able to repair cars.

[–] BluescreenOfDeath 22 points 5 months ago

That's treating people as Humans. But in our capitalist hellscape, we aren't people, we're Consumers. We exist to provide money to companies, and they're ever interested in finding more ways to make us give them money.

It's not enough that you buy a TV, the manufacturer needs to have ads in it. They need the telemetry on what you watch, when you watch it, and for how long so they can make the ads more relevant. We can't have you replacing your phone battery, so we'll make it an internal component so when it goes bad you're more likely to just get a new phone.

But we can't pay people more, because that's an expense.

The line must go up at all costs.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I knew before I even clicked in it would be some shitbox by Chrysler.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I don't understand how people keep buying rams. They're just such pieces of shit.

Edit: make that Dodges.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Shit goes by many names, but it's still shit.

[–] Iheartcheese 29 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I truly feel this man's righteous anger at my very core.

[–] Dkarma 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] Iheartcheese 3 points 5 months ago

About many things I am sure

[–] Tautvydaxx 24 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Chrysler, jeep, dodge, ram, fiat all have a SGW- a secure gateway that doesnt let any un-authorised diagnostic tool to connect to the car and delete faults or do any repairs, you can still see faults but cant do anything more. If you want to do more you have to buy theyr tool for 15000$ and 1000$ a year, or to bypass the SGW and do the repair ilegaly.

Renault, nissan, infiniti all have a SGW that cant be bypassed normaly so you have to pay about 10€ for a 24h connection for one VIN code. There is no free way to connect to these cars.

Mercedes just introduced a new SGW that i dont know anything much but you can pay to bypass it. The price i got was for 800€ for 50 connections.

VW group is working on a new platfrom with Rivian that is sayed to be 100% not bypassible in any means. Onley a dealer would be able to do anything.

BMW is letting connect and do anything but its made harder by locking every part to a VIN so that you cant use used parts. Rumor is that next generation bmw will not be able to use used parts. Some cars dont let you do it now but there are ways to make it work.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Looks like I'm gonna run my Mercedes 300D until it literally collapses into a heap. The engine is supposed to be good for a million miles, after that I guess I can change bearing journals, valves and seats, bore it out and do oversize pistons like they did back in the day.

I'm appreciating more and more owning a car that only has an electrical system for the lights and radio

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

In the end you might DIY ebike

[–] Tautvydaxx 4 points 5 months ago

New cars are getting so bad that I bet in 20 years, car of the year will be a bike.