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This makes me scratch my head in wonder.

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Gee, I wonder if JD is coming out with a new model called the Anti-Pirate! It won't play music on the radio! I've heard everything now. Every day some idiot thinks up something to get their name in the paper and guess what, it works! Illegal to work on your own car, evidently they don't live in Oklahoma! :highly_amused:
 
As a former Texan, I know I certainly wouldn't want anyone from Oklahoma working on my car....:jester:
 
What is scarier is there are probaly a lot of people who think this is a wonderful idea!
 
The only thing I would say is that one of the smarter things (very few) that Jeremy Clarkson ever said about self driving cars is "that one day you're going to be on the road in your self driving car and the other car on the road will have been worked on in a shed by a guy called Billy and ..... "

Yes it is silly but, as they get more and more complex, there is a certain logic.
 
In a way they are engineering you out of working on your car. Every year it seems they make even the simplest things unaccessible; batteries located in wheel wells, bulbs that you can't get to, more and more "chip" control, etc.
 
JPSmit said:
The only thing I would say is that one of the smarter things (very few) that Jeremy Clarkson ever said about self driving cars is "that one day you're going to be on the road in your self driving car and the other car on the road will have been worked on in a shed by a guy called Billy and ..... "

Yes it is silly but, as they get more and more complex, there is a certain logic.
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And that would be what?
 
It's a conspiracy, what you can't fix you have to take it back to the dealer who has 100K worth of equipment to plug it into. The dealer makes more money, the manufacture gets a cut and they are happy. Note, not all independent mechanics out here are idiots as some seem to think, but can't afford the high cost of new electronic equipment to work on the new stuff and it's getting worse as their changing the specifics on the newer cars and even the older electronic equipment won't work on them if you don't have the upgrades, if your machine will except them. Money, it's all about money. JMHO. PJ
 
What GM, and even tractor companies like John Deere, argues is that you, as an owner, don’t actually own your car. Rather, you’re sort of just borrowing it for an extended amount of time and paying for the rights to use the technology.
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Well, if I don't own the car, I guess I can't be charged sales tax. That would also infer the manufacturer still owns the car. So they can pay for my insurance as the legal owner.
 
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