Automakers to gearheads: Stop repairing cars

[Fintro11]

I could see them requiring you to be a red seal mechanic to work on them.
I am a red seal millwright, I work on overhead cranes and hoists. By law here you need 10 000 hours expierence to inspect them and 8,000 hours to repair them. You also need to be familiar with the brand of hoist. That being said how many times has somebody killed some one with their vehicle due too shorty repair. If they want to do anything ban cheap aftermarket parts. How to oem brakes compare to cheap brands out there?

Any way you go it will be hard to enforce

[Steve Tinker]

Originally Posted by Fintro11

Any way you go it will be hard to enforce

Well, not that difficult.

Say your newish car was involved in an accident serious enough to get the law involved. All they have to do is check the damaged cars mileage, check when it was last serviced (easily on line from the manufacturer's data base) and then deduce if the servicing was up to date (all OK your honour) or, because the owner was completing the services himself it was overdue, therefore technically not safe to drive. Insurance companies would not need much more info to refuse the claim on "safety inspections and service out of date therefore claim denied" Of course the kicker would be if they found the installation of non genuine parts.

This scenario could be enacted by the insurance companies before they write out the policy "mileage of the car sir - one moment while I check with the manufacturer' database to verify"

[jb92563]

If the people are sheep, they will accept that level of government control in a Democratic society, but if there is anyone that values Freedom and does not accept total control by the government, we'll be in Texas cleaning our guns.

I suspect some troubling times are ahead before the Public decides they have had enough and cuts the legs out from under the government because they clearly represent their own desires and not that of the public they are supposed to represent.

I would not buy a car that has that stipulation.

Just wait till the Electric car battery crisis occurs, that will shake the publics confidence for blindly believing the current Electrics are good for the environment, but thats a whole other can of worms.

Life is becoming like the Movies "Idiocracy", a stupid representation of the future that we are starting to resemble more everyday.