The War on Fixing Your Own Car
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Video clip Description
The battle for possession and the right to fix proceeds. Ford, General Motors, and Roger Penske met President Trump to talk about appropriate to fix. They desire regulations that would certainly forbid automobile proprietors along with independent auto mechanics from fixing their vehicles. Ford CEO Jim Farley wants just Ford educated technicians to deal with their vehicles, claiming this is due to “safety and security and automobile intricacy,” but it’s the car makers themselves making the cars require unique devices and constructing them in a method that makes it hard also for their very own service technicians to deal with.
And regarding the safety, in 1971 Ford launched the Pinto and a dripped memorandum programs they understood the cars were damaged. Rather than spend $11 per car to fix them, they concluded it would certainly be more affordable to deal with wrongful death claims in court. Rapid ahead to today, and they presently have an active recall on the 2021 to 2024 Bronco Sport for a split fuel injector that brings about the vehicles capturing on fire. Despite finding out about this for over a year, they assert they’re still establishing a solution …
It’s not regarding complexity or placing people’s lives in danger. It’s concerning wanting persisting income through overpriced parts and labor, and to ensure we pay their rates, they wish to take away our right to fix our own automobiles.
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:43 A Bill to Prohibit Fixing Your Own Car
01:46 Ford CEO on Right to Repair
02:32 Proprietary Scan Tools
03:00 Modern Cars Are Computers Now
03:56 Technicians Struggling to Fix New Cars
05:16 Car Parts Can not Be Replaced
06:56 Mechanics Are Not Paid the Door Rate
08:03 Ford Patents to stop Cheaper Parts
08:40 Private Equity Buying Junk Yards
09:31 Ford Bronco Sport Fire Recall
10:39 Ford Pinto Exploding Case Study
11:14 Ford Replaces Engineers with AI
12:03 Vehicles Are Software and Sensors
13:44 Why Technicians Are Quitting
14:46 Trump Freedom to Fix Memo
16:06 Car Manufacturers Don’t Want You to Fix Your Car
16:27 Outro
