RIGHT TO REPAIR. You bought it. You own it.

  • by: C A
  • recipient: All Motor Vehicle Manufacturers

You have the right to improve the things you buy. If you want to paint racing stripes on your car, you should be able to open, hack, repair, raise, upgrade, or glue ribbons bells on it. Once you’ve paid money for a product, the manufacturer shouldn’t be able to dictate how you use it—it’s yours. But that’s exactly what some manufacturers intend to do. It’s common practice to refuse to make parts, tools, and repair information available to consumers and small repair shops. An army of repair technicians stands ready to fill in the gap. We're in a recession so spread the work around. If you cracked your headlight, you should be able to buy one and change it yourself. If vehicle manufacturers want more control they could enforce 101 point check at their cost should the repairs to a vehicle exceed 50% of the vehicle price. After all clients are buying there spares and they are already profiting from such. All clients need is a little help from our consumer’s rights. WE HAVE THE RIGHTto open everything we own, to modify and repair our things,WE MUST HAVE ACCESS to repair information, to products that can be repaired, and to reasonably-priced, independent repair shops. Manufacturers add technological restrictions that keep you from even looking at certain codes, Make it unlawful. If you can’t fix it, you don’t own it. From challenging restrictive end user agreements to supporting the fair use of repair manuals and diagnostic codes, fight to give owners control over their own devices.
You have the right to improve the things you buy. If you want to paint racing stripes on your car, you should be able to open, hack, repair, raise, upgrade, or glue ribbons bells on it. Once you’ve paid money for a product, the manufacturer shouldn’t be able to dictate how you use it—it’s yours. But that’s exactly what some manufacturers intend to do. It’s common practice to refuse to make parts, tools, and repair information available to consumers and small repair shops. An army of repair technicians stands ready to fill in the gap. We're in a recession so spread the work around. If you cracked your headlight, you should be able to buy one and change it yourself. If vehicle manufacturers want more control they could enforce 101 point check at their cost should the repairs to a vehicle exceed 50% of the vehicle price. After all clients are buying there spares and they are already profiting from such. All clients need is a little help from our consumer’s rights. WE HAVE THE RIGHT to open everything we own, modify and repair our things. WE MUST HAVE ACCESS to repair information, to products that can be repaired and To reasonably-priced, independent repair shops. Manufacturers add technological restrictions that keep you from even looking at certain codes, Make it unlawful. If you can’t fix it, you don’t own it. From challenging restrictive end user agreements to supporting the fair use of repair manuals and diagnostic codes, fight to give owners control over their own devices.

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