AZ Daily Independent: Arizona has joined a bipartisan coalition of 27 attorneys general, calling for Congress to protect farmers and other consumers by passing expansive Right-to-Repair legislation targeted at automobiles, agriculture equipment and digital electronic equipment.
According to the Arizona Attorney General’s Office (AGO), expansive Right-to-Repair legislation would ensure small businesses can remain competitive against closed systems favored by Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs). They claim it would also ensure farmers can repair agricultural equipment at a reasonable cost and consumers can repair electronics instead of replacing them, where that makes the most sense.
In a letter, the attorneys general explained that as vehicles, farm equipment and digital devices have become more technologically advanced, and OEMs often control access to electronic parts. This creates an unfair restraint of trade and a monopoly on repair, which directly affects consumers with increased prices.
The attorneys general encouraged Congress to consider three pieces of proposed legislation from the 117th Congress that were never passed, despite widespread public support for Right-to-Repair legislation: more
Congress, and Bidet, pass laws that help us keep our old stuff?
HAHAHAHAHAHA – ugh
John Deere lobbiests working overtime to block this.
Shade tree mechanics disappeared a long time ago. Wait til the EVs hit, about the only thing you’ll be able to do without going to a dealership put new tires on.
Working as a small engine mechanic I can state that John Deere makes it difficult to fix their equipment if you are not a Deere franchise. Plus John Deere is a pile of green garbage. The worse machines to work on as some of their engineering defies common sense. Why should you have to disassemble the front steering to change a drive belt? Because they route it on both sides of the steering wheel shaft. No other manufacturers do that.
We hate them at the shop but nobody else will even touch them in our area. They come in with broken hoods all the time because their plastic is incedibly cheap and shatters at the smallest impact. Would never advise purchasing a Deere or Husqvarna product.
There isn’t much that ranchers and farmers can’t keep going INCLUDING contemporary New Holland and Deere that the companies say they are not able to work on anyway. When you are cutting you are cutting unless and until the dew is too heavy and that means you have equipment that needs repair at all hours of the night and everyone else is cutting at the same time so if you have to wait for someone to come out it just doesn’t work.
And to rant further John Deere and several other Lawn Tractor manufacturers are using Plastic as their transmission housings. DO NOT BUY! Problematic as hell, can’t be repaired and extremely expensive to replace.
JB Weld.
Expansive should really read expensive as it will be far more expensive to fix and repair vehicles in the future if this legislation passes. The law of unintended consequences strikes again.
There was once a time when I could build a Chevy smallblock race engine with one eye tied behind my back. NOW I don’t even dare look under the hood of any of my newer vehicles!
You can buy the parts from what I know
You just can get them to work wi
I hit the post button accidentally.
You can buy the parts from what I know. You just can get them to work without their program.
Somebody made software to get around it from what I’ve seen.
@Toenex, STENS is the aftermarket parts supplier you’re probably referring to.