• ✨Abigail Watson✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    To be fair, my car has one specific circuit board that can only be fixed by a dealership mechanic. Found out about that one after it malfunctioned on the highway, my car turned off, and I couldn’t use the breaks while coasting at 65 mph. I called half a dozen mechanics before one told me that it was a dealership issue because it required special equipment to code the circuit board. Wish my car told me that so I wouldn’t have wasted all that time.

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      1 year ago

      This should enrage you to the moon and back. This is THE anti-repair/anti-consumer that I’m talking about. I had the same issue the other day on my car rear brakes. A friend of mine is a mechanic and he has this Bluetooth device that he has to use to unlock MY FUCKING BRAKES. And he has to pay $1200 a year subscription fee to update/unlock that software from Hyundai, otherwise it stops working. A car that is completely paid off is locked by the maker and I can’t just change the brake pads and rotor on it. This made me extremely mad. I didn’t know about it and now I’ll make sure my next car doesn’t have this shit on it.