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[–] donut4ever@lemm.ee 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Your car is telling you to contact the dealership, not a mechanic or to get it checked. That's very intrusive, anti-consumer and anti-repair. It's your car and they shouldn't be putting shit like this in it. Most they should say is "please get it checked" or something like that.

[–] Neato@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly. We've had "Check Engine" lights for years that effectively say, "something's fucked". This says, "Something's fucked, and under DRM".

[–] donut4ever@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Thank you for putting it into better words than mine. I was worried that some might mistake what I said for something silly

[–] SgtSilverLining@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

To be fair, my car has one specific circuit board that can only be fixed by a dealership mechanic. Found out about that one after it malfunctioned on the highway, my car turned off, and I couldn't use the breaks while coasting at 65 mph. I called half a dozen mechanics before one told me that it was a dealership issue because it required special equipment to code the circuit board. Wish my car told me that so I wouldn't have wasted all that time.

[–] donut4ever@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago

This should enrage you to the moon and back. This is THE anti-repair/anti-consumer that I'm talking about. I had the same issue the other day on my car rear brakes. A friend of mine is a mechanic and he has this Bluetooth device that he has to use to unlock MY FUCKING BRAKES. And he has to pay $1200 a year subscription fee to update/unlock that software from Hyundai, otherwise it stops working. A car that is completely paid off is locked by the maker and I can't just change the brake pads and rotor on it. This made me extremely mad. I didn't know about it and now I'll make sure my next car doesn't have this shit on it.

[–] suenoromis@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I would've gone to the mechanic anyway, they have a scanner that can read this code and they'll know what to do...

[–] Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Something something Need for Speed

[–] Zaphod@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago

This has been jpegged too much

[–] TeddE@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It just needs one more nitro boost.

[–] mumblerfish@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago