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 specific…
Modern vehicles suck. There is literally time bombs in every single one in the shape of a required part that is plastic, rubber, cheap alloy cast, or a mix of all three that WILL fall apart in your car in the next 10yrs, it WILL cost close to $2000 to repair, and if you can’t the car loses a massive portion of it’s value for resale. Right to repair is a far cry from fixing the siphoning of resources from the average person, but it is definitely a step in the right direction. No surprise corporations would be against lower repair bills when they literally set their budget against the repairs they know you will need. Here is an example: Mini Coopers, the water pump is cooled by radiator fluid, if the fluid gets low enough for the car to overheat the water pump dies immediately because it sits below the level where the engine starts to over heat. There is no dummy light, there is no gauge to tell you your coolant is low. You yourself could fix this with an aftermarket temperature sensor that you position connected to the water pump so if the water pump itself starts to overheat you get an alarm from the sensor, but Mini Cooper will never allow their engineers to put a temp sensor there, or even a low fluid sensor, because when that pump goes out a mini service center is getting around $1500-$2k. Literally the only warning you may get prior to the water pump dying is the faint smell of radiator fluid. Right to repair is not where this fight should be at, we should be passing laws forcing corporations to use quality engineering.
Modern vehicles suck. There is literally time bombs in every single one in the shape of a required part that is plastic, rubber, cheap alloy cast, or a mix of all three that WILL fall apart in your car in the next 10yrs, it WILL cost close to $2000 to repair, and if you can’t the car loses a massive portion of it’s value for resale. Right to repair is a far cry from fixing the siphoning of resources from the average person, but it is definitely a step in the right direction. No surprise corporations would be against lower repair bills when they literally set their budget against the repairs they know you will need. Here is an example: Mini Coopers, the water pump is cooled by radiator fluid, if the fluid gets low enough for the car to overheat the water pump dies immediately because it sits below the level where the engine starts to over heat. There is no dummy light, there is no gauge to tell you your coolant is low. You yourself could fix this with an aftermarket temperature sensor that you position connected to the water pump so if the water pump itself starts to overheat you get an alarm from the sensor, but Mini Cooper will never allow their engineers to put a temp sensor there, or even a low fluid sensor, because when that pump goes out a mini service center is getting around $1500-$2k. Literally the only warning you may get prior to the water pump dying is the faint smell of radiator fluid. Right to repair is not where this fight should be at, we should be passing laws forcing corporations to use quality engineering.
Add some line breaks dude. Nobody wants to read a wall of text.
To add to this:
You can have double spaces
at the end of lines
so you can write like this.
Paragraphs require double lines.
Like this.
And yet here you are ranting about them when all you could’ve done was buy a used 2005 car.
and yet you participate in society, curious
Participating in society != buying newer and newer shit