Can’t wait for a bunch of shade tree mechanics to electrocute themselves trying to fix EVs in a few years.
ETA: Everyone who downvotes me must post a link to documentation on how to actually service an EV at home, under a tree, without a bunch of fancy tools.
Dumb rhetoric that corpos use to justify killing right to repair
How many people break their arms in belt assemblies? How many people forget to chock the wheels when they disconnect the differential and go “what the fuck it’s in park” when their car then rolls down the driveway and runs over their legs? How many people scald themselves on exhausts? Etc etc
It’s called a service manual. The dealer will sell it to you, but it costs money. It’s the exact same as a gas car if you wanted the manual.
EVs have a battery disconnect usually located under the rear seats. Pull the seat bottom up, unscrew some bolts, and yank the lever to disconnect the main battery, and now the car is safe to work on.
Can’t wait for a bunch of shade tree mechanics to electrocute themselves trying to fix EVs in a few years.
ETA: Everyone who downvotes me must post a link to documentation on how to actually service an EV at home, under a tree, without a bunch of fancy tools.
Dumb rhetoric that corpos use to justify killing right to repair
How many people break their arms in belt assemblies? How many people forget to chock the wheels when they disconnect the differential and go “what the fuck it’s in park” when their car then rolls down the driveway and runs over their legs? How many people scald themselves on exhausts? Etc etc
I’m not gonna electrocute myself on some Teslas battery pack just cause Elon won’t release the specs.
Internal combustion 4 life
incredibly dumb
You won’t be saying that when you’re paying Elon or Ford or Chevy or VW or BYD for firmware update so you can drive to work.
Do you think car enshitification is specific to a particular drive train? Yikes. All cars want your “as a service” money.
No, which is why I’m not buying any car made after 2015.
Even if it kills me to keep it running.
That’s reasonable in a way that acting like it’s about ice vs electric isn’t.
Brand new ICE cars have firmware updates that stop you from driving until they’re complete too.
Wouldn’t you just disconnect the battery before doing work?
Pardon? Oh Internal Combustion Engine.
You might want to be more clear given what people in the US these days usually mean when they say “ICE”… But also, what a stupid hill to die on.
Opening up EVs to indie mechanics would be a godsend for competition and maintenance costs.
I remember this story from 2018… https://www.vice.com/en/article/rich-rebuilds-tesla-repair-and-salvage/
…that’s about what we would call “Right To Repair” these days.
I can’t even get a complete ODB2 scan on a decade old car without paying hundreds of bucks for some janky software.
I’m not touching a hybrid, let alone an EV without a solid life insurance policy.
So the issue has nothing to do with them being EVs…
What about a PHEV?
It’s called a service manual. The dealer will sell it to you, but it costs money. It’s the exact same as a gas car if you wanted the manual.
EVs have a battery disconnect usually located under the rear seats. Pull the seat bottom up, unscrew some bolts, and yank the lever to disconnect the main battery, and now the car is safe to work on.
You say that like they still sell service manuals and I didn’t have to steal both of them for my current old cars.
What shade tree mechanic wouldn’t steal it?
I sure as shit haven’t paid for them for any of my cars, nor any other car I’ve worked on.
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