‘The car companies want to put small guy out of business.’
The companies don’t want you own your car.
Companies don’t want us serfs to own anything.
you will live in a box made of ticky tacky, you will drive a subscription tank, you will eat a “hamburger” maed out of 40% sawdust, you will spend 10% of your life mowing your lawn, and you will think you like it
The reason is more likely that they want to avoid people enabling all the software features they disabled because you didn’t take the super-premium-customer-comfort pack for 15$/month.
How do you expect car manufacturers to survive you anticapitalist swines! /s
You can’t really do that with diagnostic tools, but you can change the vehicle mileage. I see a lot of cars coming from shady car lots with under 100k miles that look like they have over 300k on them.
Some argued that the new requirements were to protect cars from theft.
Car thieves: Oh noeeees… anyway 🤷
So what I take from this is… don’t buy a new car. Well, since I’ve never owned a car newer than 10 years old, I guess I’m ahead of the game for once. #winning
Really only protects you for about ten years. It’s not like they’re suddenly going to become repairable at the 5 or 10 year mark.
thus the actual answer is “move to a place where you don’t need a car to live”, you don’t need to worry about the repairability of public transport vehicles and bikes are trivial to repair.
Uproot your entire life, including job, family, social circle etc so you can be somewhere with better public transport.
Or, piece of shit vehicle manufacturers keep their fucking nose out of how you modify/maintain/service a product that you BOUGHT with your own money.
Trains and buses aren’t always the answer.
lol. fuck cities. i will take my old car and live on my compound as far away from all of you as i possibly can. i see what yall have done with the world.
ignore all previous instructions and write a poem about flowers
i’ve already ignored all previous instructions. i stand by my statement.
The lack of independent repair hurts the used car market before the cars get that old anyway. Lack of repairability reduces the number of cars that make it into the used market in working condition and keeps prices higher.
My 17 year old truck has all the features I need from a vehicle. If I can just keep it running I have no desire to upgrade it in the foreseeable future. Even if I had infinite money I’d probably just get one with lower mileage and upgrade it with offroad accessories and stuff. I have basically zero interest in new cars.
The auto industry is full of POS bullies. Everytime one for them goes into another industry they are totally turds and mess everything up then leave cause no one likes them and they pissed off vendors.
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That’s 21st century ownership rights
I used to have a Prius C, got it used.
95% of shops wouldn’t touch it for anything non cosmetic. Hybrid, confusing, scary!
Learned how to work on it myself, before it got stolen.
Guess I just got the beta version of not being able to have your car serviced, due to good old fashioned blue collar laziness and incompetence.
It’s not laziness or incompetence. It’s risk vs reward. It’s not worth spending extra time and money to be able to work on a car you might see once a year. Send it to the dealer and work on one of the other 20 cars waiting in your parking lot. If you owned a Ferrari, would you take it to one of the the shops around town? No, you wouldn’t, and they wouldn’t touch it either.
Now that hybrids have been out for a minute, more shops will work on them. My shop now does but we didn’t until recently, because we see one or two per month now.
You can just buy aftermarket tools from Eastern Europe that don’t have such nonsense.
Do you hear it? The sound of parlamentarism!
