Comments by "Helmuth Schultes" (@helmuthschultes9243) on "John Deere employee responds to Right to Repair" video.

  1. Not possible to give a too long reply in comments. 1) yes modifying foes take place, but entirely independant of Right To Repair. Mostly by illegal modifications of hardware and chipping. THIS IS NOT REPAIR! 2) The locked DTC codes are legal (EPA) requirements, but who actually authorises who can clear these, dealer? What stops them assisting their friends and relatives, without doing full repairs or bypassing. Only legal consequences, and that can equally apply to independant and dealer people. 3) Volume too low to support many repair shops. Clearly that is so, but right to repair has nothing to do with a repair shop on every corner. Independant repair shops will establish if enough work is available and no more than can earn a living. One sad issue is that the computer modules are EXPENSIVE. Yet no actual repairs are done. Defective modules are replaced at full cost! In automotive volumes there have been attempts to do reconditioned modules, but given real manufacturing costs in high volume cases the effort and resources needed make that uneconomical and unprofitable. There have been independant electronic shops that buy defect modules, like you have donor mac assemblies, and reuse parts to repair some These are sold back to dealers who make a killing selling these often without notice of Rework at full price. Whether in agricultural the volume allows that? At least right to repair might let some such reconditioned modules market establish. I have worked in automotive electronics mainly ignitiion and fuel injection for 40 + years and have seen the lot.
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