| Mountain Mechanic - 3/5/2020 19:29
I find this movement, in general, comical. You can fix your own tractor. Just buy the equipment and figure out how to use it.
Can I fix my own equipment in a practical manner? I would argue that I cannot.
I can buy a piece of equipment and my next stop can be to spend $600 to $2,000 to buy all of the available service manuals for that piece of equipment. Then I can have a wiring problem and as I’m diagnosing it with the wiring diagrams I purchased I can notice discrepancies. Upon calling the dealer I discover there are many revisions to the wiring diagrams. I ask if I can purchase the correct revisions and am told that I cannot, you can just purchase the most recent paper one (the one I already have). The version the dealer has on his computer is more current of course.
That is an absurd scenario. It is no different than robbery. I have paid possibly thousands of dollars for service information that not only has no value, it is less than no value because the provided information was misleading. I paid for a stumbling block. |
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