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Re:Voters Overwhelmingly Pass Car Right to Repair Law in Maine by sandworm101 on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @07:50PM (#38199441)
A blown head gasket is one of the easiest things to diagnose and repair. You can do it in your home garage with basic tools. But finding a faulty temp sensor that is throwing a code that in turn disables throttle response ... that requires a cloud-based network solution to properly lookup the deliberately cryptic error code.
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Re:Voters Overwhelmingly Pass Car Right to Repair Law in Maine by ClumsyPilot on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @08:38PM (#38199856)
if only the car contained a computer for diagnostucs and a high resolution dispkay that xould show an error clearly...
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Re:Voters Overwhelmingly Pass Car Right to Repair Law in Maine by kube-system on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @08:56PM (#38200034)
Your faulty temp sensor shouldn't need any cloud-based solution.

The SAE J1979 standard (or your part of the world's equivalent) already provides for a way to get that diagnostic data which is mandated by law.

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Re:Voters Overwhelmingly Pass Car Right to Repair Law in Maine by boringg on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @09:46PM (#38200466)
Yeah but how would the car manufacturers make any money /S
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Re:Voters Overwhelmingly Pass Car Right to Repair Law in Maine by forgetfreeman on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @08:58PM (#38200059)
accurate only if you don't warp the head badly enough that it needs to be machined or replaced outright. Even so, crate motors are surprisingly affordable.
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