The War on Fixing Your Own Car

The fight for ownership and the right to repair continues. Ford, General Motors, and Roger Penske met with President Trump to discuss right to repair. They want legislation that would prohibit vehicle owners as well as independent mechanics from fixing their vehicles. Ford CEO Jim Farley wants only Ford trained technicians to work on their vehicles, claiming this is because of “safety and vehicle complexity,” but it's the car manufacturers themselves making the vehicles require special tools and building them in a way that makes it hard even for their own technicians to fix. And about the safety, in 1971 Ford released the Pinto and a leaked memo shows they knew the vehicles were faulty. But rather than spend $11 per vehicle to fix them, they concluded it would be cheaper to fight wrongful death claims in court. Fast forward to today, and they currently have an active recall on the 2021 to 2024 Bronco Sport for a cracked fuel injector that leads to the vehicles catching on fire. Despite knowing about this for over a year, they claim they're still developing a remedy… It's not about complexity or putting people's lives at risk. It's about wanting recurring income through overpriced parts and labor, and to ensure we pay their prices, they want to take away our right to repair our own vehicles. To support the channel on YouTube:    / @vanessawingårdh   To support the channel on Patreon:   / vanessawingardh   Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:43 A Bill to Prohibit Fixing Your Own Car 01:46 Ford CEO on Right to Repair 02:32 Proprietary Scan Tools 03:00 Modern Cars Are Computers Now 03:56 Technicians Struggling to Fix New Cars 05:16 Car Parts Cannot Be Replaced 06:56 Mechanics Are Not Paid the Door Rate 08:03 Ford Patents to Prevent Cheaper Parts 08:40 Private Equity Buying Junk Yards 09:31 Ford Bronco Sport Fire Recall 10:39 Ford Pinto Exploding Case Study 11:14 Ford Replaces Engineers with AI 12:03 Vehicles Are Software and Sensors 13:44 Why Technicians Are Quitting 14:46 Trump Freedom to Fix Memo 16:06 Car Manufacturers Don’t Want You to Fix Your Car 16:27 Outro