Dear TPD: First Right-to-Repair Law PASSED!

[BOP]

Also: https://www.reuters.com/markets/com...ulture-right-repair-bill-into-law-2023-04-25/

April 25 (Reuters) - Colorado's governor signed the nation's first right to repair legislation into law on Tuesday, giving the state's farmers and ranchers the autonomy to fix their own equipment.

The bill, which requires manufacturers such as Deere & Co (DE.N) to provide manuals for diagnostic software and other aids, garnered bipartisan support as farmers grew increasingly frustrated with costly repairs and inflated input prices denting their profits.


With a Case IH red tractor displayed outside the state Capitol in Denver, Governor Jared Polis, a Democrat, signed The Consumer Right to Repair Agriculture Equipment Act.

 

[vraiblonde]

Take that, greedy corporate pigs.

 

[DaSDGuy]

Next thing will be Tesla providing the 256 steps we need to replace the battery.

 

[TPD]

The walls have slowly been coming down on this. There was an agreement with JD recently to allow right to repair. Glad to see it’s being put into law. Also glad to hear Steve say Maryland is also one of the states trying to pass this. I will need to talk to my elected representatives.

 

[TPD]

And the argument that farmers are going to turn up the horsepower is horse$hit. That hasn’t been a practice in the past - maybe one or 2 guys did it but not widespread. Besides, the horsepower today in tractors is huge, more than needed in many cases.

 

[DaSDGuy]

Arguing the farmers may turn up the horsepower is just another lib tactic -

Example: "lets make sure something that has never happened before is illegal. We can make up lies about this non-existent occurrence saying anything we want because there is no data to dispute our claims. Do it for the kids. It's science. And wear your damn mask!".

 

[PrchJrkr]

I'm all for right to repair, because with what machinery costs, it's like adding insult to injury restricting the owners ability to maintain what they own.

That being said, the cost of factory service manuals is still going to be a deterrent to many. I can see a company like Deere jacking up the cost to anyone who isn't a Certified Service Provider, just to spite the consumer's newfound freedom. Time will tell.

 

[Gilligan]

I wonder if this might trickle down to outboards too. Manufacturers like Yamaha go to great lengths to restrict access to their ECMs, making authorized dealers buy the expensive interface equipment and software and threatening those same dealers with legal action if they sell a set of that to a non-dealer. (Like me). When their interface was "cracked" back about 10 or so years ago, and third-party diagnostic systems became available fairly cheaply, Yamaha reconfigured the interface to require a "descrambler" to make any sense out of the data stream and use any of the diagnostic features. I cannot access the ECM on any Yamaha product newer than 2016 as a result of that.

Surprisingly, perhaps, Honda has always left their OBD interface wide open...just buy the "Dr. H" kit and yr good to go.

 

[Hijinx]

Why not cars.?
The air conditioner on y Ram truck stopped working. It was going to cost me over $1,000 dollars to fix it. The parts were a little over a hundred dollars but it had to be done at a dealers because the computer had to be reset to make it work. My mechanic said he could rent the code from the dealer but it could only be used once. I sold that POS and bought a used Ford. Problem not solved ,but the air conditioner works.

 

[limblips]

And the argument that farmers are going to turn up the horsepower is horse$hit. That hasn’t been a practice in the past - maybe one or 2 guys did it but not widespread. Besides, the horsepower today in tractors is huge, more than needed in many cases.

As you said, when used 300+ HP tractors are ~ $500K few can afford to have it grenade itself because they tried to pull out another 25 HP. It really sucks when you go from a fleet of 3 to 2 during soil prep/planting/spraying/harvesting fall crops and then rinse, wash and repeat for winter cover crop.