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Originally Posted by cyrnel
Being in the business I'm sure you're aware, service, and more recently, trained-monkey parts swapping, is the largest non-petroleum source of profit in the automobile industry. The restrictions you've seen appear in ODB II and up are in no small part due to dealer and parts manufacturer interests whose lobbies push hard to keep it legal. Making service economical and potentially DIY is not in the interest of those businesses or their partners. Without real oversight of the industry again we'll all be driving vehicles we cannot service.
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There's a shop owner that ordered the Mercedes-Benz Scan Tool from his local dealership. Payed for it and picked it up. Daimler-Chysler North America sent him notice that unless he returned the tool they would take him to court and sue him for stealing intellectual property and some other stuff. Their own dealer sold it to him. I don't see how he could have stole anything if you ordered it and they filled the order. There should be some kind of anti-trust thing you could invoke/bring against them but their the ones with millions of dollars for legal fees to fight stuff like this not the shop owner.
I hope that enough people realize soon that there is a problem and that they should regulate or legislate the manufacturers into making information available.