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I am so sick of this shit. Companies used to provide schematics with their products so you could fix it yourself if you had to. Now if you show someone how to do it online they might SUE you. I am sure you remember this too.

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>A little over a year ago, Maine residents voted overwhelmingly (83 percent) to pass a new state right to repair law designed to make auto repairs easier and more affordable. More specifically, the law requires that automakers standardize on-board diagnostic systems and provide remote access to those systems and mechanical data to consumers and third-party independent repair shops. But as we’ve seen with other states that have passed right to reform laws (most notably New York), passing the law isn’t the end of the story. Corporate lobbyists have had great success not just watering these laws down before passage, but after voters approve them. They’ve also been swarmed by coordinated industry lawsuits and falsehood-spewing attacks.

I am so sick of this shit. Companies used to provide schematics with their products so you could fix it yourself if you had to. Now if you show someone how to do it online they might SUE you. @stupidbird I am sure you remember this too. Archive: https://archive.today/wUnwZ From the post: >>A little over a year ago, Maine residents voted overwhelmingly (83 percent) to pass a new state right to repair law designed to make auto repairs easier and more affordable. More specifically, the law requires that automakers standardize on-board diagnostic systems and provide remote access to those systems and mechanical data to consumers and third-party independent repair shops. But as we’ve seen with other states that have passed right to reform laws (most notably New York), passing the law isn’t the end of the story. Corporate lobbyists have had great success not just watering these laws down before passage, but after voters approve them. They’ve also been swarmed by coordinated industry lawsuits and falsehood-spewing attacks.

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jews gonna jew

If you can't repair your (((car))) then just use (((public transport))) goyim! And be sure to bring your digital ID so the train/bus can determine if you are eligible to ride because you didn't do an antisemitism on (((social media))).

This is all by design...

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I drive a vehicle that was built be for 2000. It does everything I need and it's pretty damn easy to work on and parts are easy to find. I have upgraded things like installing a new head unit and backup cam, ill be adding in a onboard dashcam soon too.

I don't need any of this new garbage that they are building. My wife had a newer diesel jetta that busted a wiring harness more than once, It took me some time but I rewired and rerouted the whole damn thing since it was in a stupid place to begin with and was a guarantee to fail (car had less than 30k miles on it). We will never buy a VW again.

If I had to take that to the shop they would probably have charged me 5k to fix it. I spent part of an afternoon in 10F weather with some wire and my soldering iron, shrink-wrap and some heat tape.

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Wish I could do stuff like that

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I am not a mechanic, I am a techie that is not afraid of learning/doing anything. I can fix a car but I can also build a datacenter and run the servers in it. If you are willing to spend the time on it you can learn/do it.

Most of this stuff is practically "Legos" anymore. Then there are people like me that post the stuff we figure out or fix online for others so they can fix it too. A ton of fixes I have done to vehicles over the years came from some random forum post I found after searching for a bit.

Replacing a head unit is just about looking up the wiring diagrams and double, triple checking it before you crimp/soldier them. Installing a backup cam is just getting under the car, looking where wires are already run and running a few new wires in the same channels if you can, if you can't you find some other place where it can be secured and run it that way.

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Yeah I remember. Problem with a lot of newer equipment is they require a lot of tools and special parts you simply can't get.

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Yeah, that is true so I won't argue that. Most people just are not able to even read the manuals but the fact that it's often "illegal" to own them at all is insane. Let the people that can, do. Stop gate keeping that bullshit.

Then again, that is why apple won't sell you $15 in parts to fix a motherboard when they can sell you a $250 motherboard.

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Without defending any of these companies because they are all shit, parts may simply not exist. Apple, for example, probably builds X motherboards beyond what they need for the production run, and any parts you get are simply chance leftovers.

This was pioneered in the 60s and 70s by companies like Lafayette and Olson - they would contract Ching Chong Charlie's Stereo Manufacturing Company and Dairy Processing Plant to make them 10,000 stereo units. 9800 went to stores with 200 in reserve for replacements of the ones that failed. Failed units simply got tossed, or repaired by a local depot if it was an easy fix. There were no parts.

That in no means excuses Apple, or any other company. They need to make spares, but with razor thin margins in places that's difficult.

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My bigger problem is that Apple actively forces contracts on part's producers to make it so they are not allowed to sell the parts to ANYONE but apple. They also make it "illegal" for 3rd party's to have access to software that can pair sensors like the "lid closed" sensor cannot be paired if you replace it so shops are forced to try to "fix" a broken sensor than replace it with a part that works fine.

Apple is really bad for this shit which is why I used them as an example. There are probably over a hundred videos by Louis Rossmann showing the bullshit they do to make sure that a "repair" is damn near impossible and you are forced to buy a new motherboard because that is where they can get some extra profit.

In this case, all they have to do is not force a manufacture to not sell to 3rd parties and not keep the calibration tools under NDA. That is it. This is a scam.

Fuck them.

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Remember that the service dept of the dealerships is where they make most of the money