Right To Repair

[agstar77]

Biden has instructed FTC to draft right to repair directive for consumer products including farm machinery. Hopefully this will make it easier for third party repairs. I am sure companies like Deere will fight it.

[sumdumguy]

Interesting but do you think Right to Repair can be enforced. The manufacturers can get around the regulations easily just by shorting certain repairs, computer parts, encrypting programs. It would be a hide and seek and then prove exercise.

[agstar77]

Something will have to give with dealerships closing. You should at least be able to plug into your machine and have it diagnosed over the internet.

[Hamloc]

Biden has instructed FTC to draft right to repair directive for consumer products including farm machinery. Hopefully this will make it easier for third party repairs. I am sure companies like Deere will fight it.

I am surprised at your optimism that anything would or could be done by government be it Biden or Trudeau that would be positive for consumers. I do agree that it is unbelievably frustrating when an expensive piece of equipment won’t move or run until a tech hooks up his laptop to it to remove a code or diagnose a problem. It would certainly be positive if there could be more competition!

[agstar77]

Travel to farm hook up computer find you need part. Travel back get part. Pay for travel and part. Gotta be a better way with zoom . Virtual mechanic call?

[blackpowder]

What about write code for a new ECM in 10+ years? when you cant get one

[WiltonRanch]

Proprietary information is about all the big guys have to cling onto as far as cornering any market. I could see them countering r to r with patent and copyright infringement but that is for the courts to decide.

[makar]

I am so happy I am almost out of this game, and people wonder the next generation isn't stepping up.

[Old Cowzilla]

Travel to farm hook up computer find you need part. Travel back get part. Pay for travel and part. Gotta be a better way with zoom . Virtual mechanic call?

Or worse yet they hook computer to tractor and find out there computer won't talk to your tractor, leave and go get other computer from other dealer and come back and then go get part and come back and so on and so on!!!!

[Sheepwheat]

I am so happy I am almost out of this game, and people wonder the next generation isn't stepping up.

I’m happy that I haven’t the slightest clue what this thread is about. And happy I am ALLOWED to still fix my own 30 and 40 series John Deere tractors.