BMW Patents Proprietary Screws That Only Dealerships Can Remove

Re:BMW Patents Proprietary Screws That Only Dealerships Can ... by gessha on Monday December 22, 2025 @08:21AM (#46353911)

Problem is if we bury our heads and drive old cars, when they give out and it’s time to buy a new car, all the news cars will have so much of this crap in them they will be unusable and you will be stuck with a lemon.

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Re:BMW Patents Proprietary Screws That Only Dealerships Can ... by georgefrowny on Monday December 22, 2025 @08:32AM (#46353971)

It's also basically impossible to have any EV that isn't an iPad on wheels.

I'm not even opposed to the mod-cons, it's just the irreparability, lock-in, touchscreen-centrism and planned obsolescence they basically all shoehorned into their new platforms.

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Re:BMW Patents Proprietary Screws That Only Dealerships Can ... by psd1 on Monday December 22, 2025 @12:11PM (#46356072)

Good news! Slate.

https://www.slate.auto/

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Re:BMW Patents Proprietary Screws That Only Dealerships Can ... by M95D on Monday December 22, 2025 @02:04PM (#46357518)

I wish they had 2-3 standard DIN slots for player/nav instead of that horrible phone/tablet mount.

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