Sitting on the pot and had to get one out

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Had some good Chinese food last night and working on a BM-w Euro-Turd today . Grunt,just no way to avoid working on Euro turds in aftermarket shops now a days. Just find yourself a 20% off single item coupon UPC # 84468677 and head to Harbor Freight if you could use a Great Euro-Turd Hole Filler. Please don't forget to wipe, but spare that coupon.Get one new while you still can, if you got a used one you might as well keep it cause it ain't worth more than $400 used now anyway if you can just go get a a new one at dumping prices, ROFLMAO. Whether Snap On is going to ask for a Protection Tariff or not on Chinese Scanners like Harley Davidson succeeded getting imposed on Japanese motorcycles over 700 CCs back in the 80s remains to be seen. I personally think the factory automotive scanners will be built into all the new car by the end of the decade anyway , so no body be copying the OE scanner software after that. I would think just having to support the built in factory scanner display with Great Guided diagnostics would be a daunting enough task to focus on rather than triing to change the factory software into something uniquely your own not to be considered plagiarized yet work as well as the OE software

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The next thing thats coming is predictive service requirements, and full telematic commnication between vehicle and the OEM (when I say coming I mean it already happens....GM and Tesla come to mind immediately) And this version of service actually wont make things any easier than they are now, in fact it can make it harder because of several reasons, first with Tesla theres the issues that there are no dealers so virtually every aspect of the right-to-repair laws dont apply to them so forget about servicing Teslas unless youre buddies with a factory tech. As far as GM does they also are coming up with ways to circumvent RTR initiatives with some of their tech by predicting failures before the OBD2 system parameters are triggered and also by the vehicle communicating with GM corporate and not dealers or techs, this again bypasses virtually all right to repair laws and initiatives and gives GM a loop hole to avoid providing service information for new tech if they chose to exploit it

[Witsend]

The next thing that's coming is predictive service requirements, and full telematic communication between vehicle and the OEM (when I say coming I mean it already happens....GM and Tesla come to mind immediately) And this version of service actually wont make things any easier than they are now, in fact it can make it harder because of several reasons, first with Tesla there's the issues that there are no dealers so virtually every aspect of the right-to-repair laws don't apply to them so forget about servicing Teslas unless you're buddies with a factory tech. As far as GM does they also are coming up with ways to circumvent RTR initiatives with some of their tech by predicting failures before the OBD2 system parameters are triggered and also by the vehicle communicating with GM corporate and not dealers or techs, this again bypasses virtually all right to repair laws and initiatives and gives GM a loop hole to avoid providing service information for new tech if they chose to exploit it
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Predictive service requirements like where it sets a BullSh@t code in Farfignuegen transfer case module when it's time to drain a quart of their proprietary spec lubricant that costs over $50 a quart and you can't erase the code for it unless you are the dealer and perform the oil change maintenance, then with the scanner , follow prompts, hear a KaHunka -Junka noise from transfer case for a second , then verify screen shows all zeroes. then and only then you can clear the Bulls@t codes from the module.Did the procedure before I drove it and changed the transfer case oil , and it didn't even have the front prop shaft attached. The U-joint had failed and chewed up the yoke of the OE drive shaft that would be $1100 from the dealer, but thankfully the aftermarket has new ones available for less than $300.