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[PMitchell08]

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Wanted to add the endorsement from SEMA here.

If you are passionately against government regulation of any variety, I understand that worldview and don't expect you to support this. For me, there needs to be a balance between keeping government from micromanaging business, and preventing large companies from shaking me down at every turn, driving competitive small businesses out of the market, or more generally benefiting from business practices that are bad for everyone.

 

[19Walt93]

Let's see...

We have two (US) government agencies that spent nearly a year studying a problem to find the root cause.

Or we have grumpy old man with a history of prejudice shaking his fist about crime and conspiracies.

"Grumpy old man", guilty as charged. "Prejudiced"-if that means I didn't swallow the "Jap car good, American car bad" spiel from magazines like Consumer Reports- also guilty as charged.
Keep in mind when Toyotas were having their "unintended acceleration" issues, this grumpy old man was a service manager will access to all kinds of industry information. I also sat on the advisory board for Hartford Votech's automotive training program, right across the table from the service manager at out local Toyota dealer, among others. His name is Chuck and we talked about what was going on in our shops.
Having any government agency diagnose a private company's problems is a waste of tax money. NASA has had some impressive achievements but they have no experience or expertise with automotive electronics. NHTSA should have hired industry experts to pinpoint the problem, billed Toyota, and forced a recall. Instead they were publicly exonerated- at our expense- and the issue disappeared.
It's not a conspiracy theory- anticipating your reply- car companies have a very short time to announce safety recalls once a defect is identified. Ford complied with the law and drove me nuts because they'd announce recalls before a fix was available and some people would panic and come in the next morning looking for a fix that didn't exist. The first person killed by a Takata airbag in a Honda was in 2001 and more were documented over the years. Honda recalled them in November 2014 when NHTSA held their feet to the fire. I have other examples but this post is too long already.

 

[sgtsandman]

U.S. Department Of Transportation Releases Results From NHTSA-NASA Study Of Unintended Acceleration In Toyota Vehicles | US Department of Transportation

The U.S. Department of Transportation released results from an unprecedented ten-month study of potential electronic causes of unintended acceleration in Toyota vehicles. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) launched the study last spring at the request of Congress, and...

www.transportation.gov

The DOT and NASA agreed with them.

After years of seeing what the government has pulled as a private citizen as well as one of their employees, I would take what the government says with a grain of salt. Often times, there is an agenda being pushed by bureaucrats and politicians. A lot of times, they are just looking at someone to place the blame on. Whether it’s right or wrong doesn’t matter as long as they are “close enough”.

An as far as NASA, they should stay in their lane. They fly test airplanes and build and fly rockets. Mass produced ground vehicles are way out of their purview.

 

[Snoranger]

With Deere, either schedule a service call or call a semi truck to haul it into town. A code reader does not exist. They do have a little code thing you can look up in a chart and will say "call dealer at earliest convenience" or "Call dealer immediately" They have no problem selling you the parts, 60% of a dealers parts sales are over the counter. It is really a pretty good gig because: A) $300 will get a service truck to your place, per hour after that. Bring lube if after hours. B) Either drive it or truck it to town C) Fire up the parts cannon and try to fix it yourself.

You don’t have John Deere Service Advisor and the communication adapter?

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

You don’t have John Deere Service Advisor and the communication adapter?

Lol.

No

You can get them from overseas that kinda sorta work on us equipment.

 

[Snoranger]

Lol.

No

You can get them from overseas that kinda sorta work on us equipment.

We can get a laptop with service advisor, the comm adapter, and factory training on each Deere we buy… i guess it helps that we’re a government fleet.