‘The car companies want to put small guy out of business.’

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5 points

Can you not press both buttons?

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This guy knows dodge.

For the uninformed: hemi engines have a massive engineering flaw. Never buy a hemi.

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What is the massive engineering flaw?

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The camshaft is prone to failure.

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The reason is more likely that they want to avoid people enabling all the software features they disabled because you didn’t take the super-premium-customer-comfort pack for 15$/month.

How do you expect car manufacturers to survive you anticapitalist swines! /s

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You can’t really do that with diagnostic tools, but you can change the vehicle mileage. I see a lot of cars coming from shady car lots with under 100k miles that look like they have over 300k on them.

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Got any examples of this?

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Like what? It’s all readily available information, you can buy tools to do it off ebay and amazon.

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8 points

You can just buy aftermarket tools from Eastern Europe that don’t have such nonsense.

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Do you hear it? The sound of parlamentarism!

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The auto industry is full of POS bullies. Everytime one for them goes into another industry they are totally turds and mess everything up then leave cause no one likes them and they pissed off vendors.

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I heard that called seagull management. Swoop in, make a lot of noise, shit everywhere, then leave.

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Using that at work. Very accurate.

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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.

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