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Originally Posted by ET2SN
There is currently a bru-ha-ha involving John Deere, Right To Repair, and farmers. 
This gets complicated really fast. If you leased a tractor over a 15 year purchase agreement, do you own it? As an "owner", are you bound to service agreements if they are listed in the fine print or can you wrench on it in the barn?
This all boils down to contract law and capitalism. 
Neither subject can be considered click-bait-y but it does become important when vehicles become high dollar assets. |
I read this as well. Right now, you almost have to be a computer engineer to do work on your car. I know a few guys who use a laptop tied into the vehicles onboard computer so they ( can talk to each other ) They adjust the fuel and spark curves and other things. Motorcycles are becoming just as bad with the advent of fuel injection on them.
Tearing an engine down isn't all that hard although, you still need a qualified machine shop to do cylinder boring and cutting and or polishing a crankshaft. I took a few years of mechanics when I was in high school so this isn't a big deal. You also need basic skills with a caliper to measure to set tolerances for bearings and such. As Jeff said, if you have knowledge like that in programming, you can do a lot of the work yourself.
There is no doubt however that car manufacturers want you to bring your cars back to them so they can charge over inflated service prices. You can save tons of money if like Rockstar, Platapus and others have said in that you can perform basic service including brakes, struts, alternators, etc....