Automaker-Funded Groups Are Using Fear Mongering To Take Away Your Right To Repair Your Car

[Chris]

This will be the last article I read on Jalopnik now that they are playing the politics game, but I thought this was worth sharing due to how alarming this is:

https://jalopnik.com/automaker-funded-groups-are-using-fear-mongering-to-tak-1844921369
I’ll bet this just makes you want to go out and buy a new car, doesn’t it @Zorba?

 

[Mike_H]

Wow...Its the whole voiding warranty with aftermarket parts thing again.

 

[Zorba]

Uh-huh. So don't build a FUCKING smartphone into the car if you the manufacturer are Oh-so-concerned about this bogus "stalking" crap.

 

[InOmaha]

Tractors have been doing that for years. That's why my dad sold his tractor for way more than he paid for it in 1970. Dumb diesel that you could pull start.

 

[Apparition]

The market will dictate feasibility

 

[Chris]

Tractors have been doing that for years. That's why my dad sold his tractor for way more than he paid for it in 1970. Dumb diesel that you could pull start.

Yeah, I've heard some of the older John Deers are selling for more than the new ones.

 

[Apparition]

Yeah, I've heard some of the older John Deers are selling for more than the new ones.

Just sold one, not more than a new one, more than when new.

 

[Chris]

Just sold one, not more than a new one, more than when new.

Surely easier to wrench on though.

 

[Apparition]

Surely easier to wrench on though.

One of our renters runs all new equipment every year or other year, Deere has a guy staffed there with a truck for any issues.

Guessing it’s all rolled up in the lease program.

 

[Tranz Zam]

I haven't seen any of those commercials on tv, but I've seen a lot of signs on the side of the road supporting right to repair.

 

[BuildBreakRepeat]

Regarding John Deere and Apple, look up the right-to-repair laws that farmers have been fighting with them over for years.

 

[Tranz Zam]

Regarding John Deere and Apple, look up the right-to-repair laws that farmers have been fighting with them over for years.

JD can get absolutely bent.

I hate what they've done, and are continuing to do, to some of the hardest working Americans to ever walk this earth.

 

[BuildBreakRepeat]

JD can get absolutely bent.

I hate what they've done, and are continuing to do, to some of the hardest working Americans to ever walk this earth.

100% agree. My family switched to all case and Kubota a couple years back after fighting with Deere.

 

[Chris]

When I think about stuff like this (screw John Deere BTW), I think that it creates a great opportunity for competition to come along and offer a better solution. It sounds like Kubota may be good competition.

A phone is one thing (I could care less that my iPhone is a closed system and not open source), but when it comes to my vehicles, you can damn well bet I don't want to own anything where I don't have the right to work on it myself.