On Sun, 3 May 2015 07:03:22 +0100, harryagain wrote:


http://www.autoblog.com/2015/04/20/a...s-car-repairs/

Could make life interesting. ;-)

Load of ********.

It's in the US so to an extent yes, but stuff in the US has a habit
of getting across the pond.

They should be more worried about the Chinese copying their stuff.

Ah but that's China, so much trade is done with China there's a
certain amount of "blind eye"...

The real reason is to put independennt car reparers out of work so the
dealers/official mechanics can rob us all.

Nail, hammer, head. Look at the battle there was to enable, even
manufacturer certified, independent garages to service cars and
retain the validity of the warranty.

Of course some makers now include n years/x thousand miles free
servicing, parts and labour in the purchase deal. All the owner has
to is pay for as "extras" to running the vehicle is fuel, insurance
and road tax (first year of either/both might be thrown in...).

When this comes to an end, the owner won't want to pay for
servicing/maintenance etc, even if those costs are less overall than
the previous deal costs. So they will trade it in and get another,
the manufacturers want this as it's another sale. The harder they can
make the servicing/maintenance the better as far as they are
concerned. The fact that cars with another 150,000 miles/10 years of
life left in them are going to the crusher doesn't bother the
manufactures, they just want to sell cars.

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Cheers
Dave.