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Right to Repair

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Whether it be electronics, automobiles or medical equipment, the manufacturers should not be able to horde “oem” parts, render your stuff useless if you repair it with aftermarket parts, or hide schematics of their products.

I Fix It Repair Manifesto

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Summary video by Marques Brownlee

Great channel covering and advocating right to repair, Lewis Rossman

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[–] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

OBDII tools are cheap, can get em for $5 from ali express

[–] ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 18 points 4 months ago

And OBDII is only a thing because laws mandated that all vehicles needed to comply with the same communication requirements.

More and more vehicle mfgs are putting critical repair and diagnostic information outside the regulated OBDII protocols, and refusing to allow others access to that protocol.