I understand the frustration expressed here, I know, I work on it to. But what is behind all the fancy new stuff? Some of it is government regulations but isn't a big part operators? I used to do work for a company with Deere tractors and pan scrapers. They had several 70 series. No one complained about having to pull SCV levers all day but when the new 9000 series came with electric switches and computers ect. no one wanted to operate the 70's anymore. I see this kind of thing frequently whether tractors or excavators or wheel loaders. And whether we like it or not, new cars/trucks or equipment are still more reliable than the older ones. I drive a pickup with just short of 300,000 miles on it and have had to do virtually nothing to it. In 1970 a car with 100,000 miles on it was pretty much shot and you had to do a tune up every 10,000 or so miles. And they didn't ride or perform as good. It's sad but a stupid little Subaru will now blow the doors off a '70's vintage car with a 400+ HP engine. As far as the right to repair, from what I have read the government passed a law dealing with cell phone repair and the auto/equipment companies have figured out a way to make it work for them. And when you see what a good number of people do to their brand new pickups with the chipped computers ect. pushing the horsepower far beyond what it was designed for I can almost understand part of the reason behind this. Isn't this part of the problem? If the general public has access to the diagnostic equipment can they leave things stock? There's always someone who has to mess with things which in turn causes other problems. What if equipment under warranty or say newer than 3-5 yrs old has to be repaired by the dealer and after that they have to release the technology to the general public. Or if the owner can show proof that the dealer has not been able to repair the machine in a reasonable time? Lots of words here and don't know if they help or not but they're just a few of my thoughts.
