Right to Repair

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Whether it be electronics, automobiles or medical equipment, the manufacturers should not be able to horde “oem” parts, render your stuff useless if you repair it with aftermarket parts, or hide schematics of their products.

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Hyundai Paywalls Brake Pad Changes (hackaday.com)

submitted 3 days ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/right2repair@discuss.tchncs.de

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Changing the pads on your car’s brakes is a pretty straightforward and inexpensive process on most vehicles. However, many modern vehicles having electronic parking brakes giving manufacturers a new avenue to paywall simple DIY repairs.

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[–] deliriousdreams@fedia.io 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's not what I mean though. What I mean is, in the event that for whatever reason the signal to deactivate the electronic park brake cannot get where it needs to go using the scan tool, there has to be a way to do it manually.

Say your vehicle is in an accident. Say the electronic park brake wiring is in shreds. That brake caliper needs to come off. The body shop is going to require a way to remove it if the scan tool can't disengage it.

Say there's corrosion in the connector. Same same. Has to come off and be replaced. And so on.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

If the car complains when it wakes back up though, then you haven’t fixed the problem. If the parking brake motor locking is really the only issue than you’re right, we’ll just back probe the motor and run it backwards.