2y ago

Hyundai Ioniq Repair Riddle: Why Does a Battery Cost $60,000? This is worse than Tesla!

Right to Repair @discuss.tchncs.de

Dehydrated @lemmy.world

2y ago

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It's amazing how we now use Tesla as a comparison piece of "Example of a bad car" lol
- Well, Tesla's are really really bad when it comes to repairing the car yourself
  
  Well yeah! That's what I'm saying
  
  Exacerbated by equally poor quality control.
  
  Yep, and this means jack shit to the majority of people on this planet.
Anyone else miss his old videos? No doubt he’s the repair man we need right now, but the nostalgia is strong this morning :-|
- What’s your favorite?
  
  I’m not sure I have a single stand-out favorite, I remember the metcal soldering station unboxing just because I was gobsmacked by the price and the automatic tip cleaner.
  But the ones I’m talking about are just the random laptop repair where he would casually troubleshoot something apple had told the customer was unrepairable. Cracking jokes about the latest cease-and-desist letter he’d received as he pulls up apple schematics watermarked with some Russian website and replaces a burnt out component :-)
Because it's a Hyundai. I'm not surprised one bit.
- I mean, work on my Hyundai has been reasonably priced, considering that all dealerships charge way too much for service.
  
  But can yours be stolen?
- Cheaper to buy than the equivalent Japanese car, more expensive to repair than the equivalent European car. Buy a Hyundai 👍
Electronics companies have gotten away with needing expensive proprietary dongles and other such nonsense for years. Car companies have seen this success and they want it.
That, and subscriptions for car features.
It doesn't stop until people stop buying.

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