I've been around along enough to remember the battles against fuel injection and then against OBDII and it all feel familiar as we move into drive/brake/steer by wire and EV controls. People with tools and skills have figured out ways around OEM lockouts and figured out how to reprogram, diagnose, and repair our own cars. FCA/Stellantis seems to have been particularly aggressive lately with the security gateways blocking access to the system modules, and now governments like CA are trying to make it illegal to even attach programmers to your cars.
While it won't help in the near term, I'm hopeful that enough people will get behind some form of right to repair legislation that will open up these systems so that individuals and non-OEM shops can have access to the documentation, tools, and systems needed to diagnose and repair these ever-evolving systems. The long term benefits of cars like the 4xe are incredible and it would be amazing to know technical details about the life and health of these battery packs, modify drive modes for better economy or off roading, or even swap-in denser battery packs. Better yet, we should be able to diagnose if a bad seatbelt body control module on the CAN bus is causing the drivetrain to shutdown without having to take it to a dealership for weeks.
This is my first Jeep, but it's in no way my first car, and I'm more concerned about the overall trend of manufacturers locking customers out of their own cars and mandating dealership visits/payments than I am about teething problems with this car.
I'll be curious to know what you all think about right to repair. I'm obviously a proponent, but there are other viewpoints.
While it won't help in the near term, I'm hopeful that enough people will get behind some form of right to repair legislation that will open up these systems so that individuals and non-OEM shops can have access to the documentation, tools, and systems needed to diagnose and repair these ever-evolving systems. The long term benefits of cars like the 4xe are incredible and it would be amazing to know technical details about the life and health of these battery packs, modify drive modes for better economy or off roading, or even swap-in denser battery packs. Better yet, we should be able to diagnose if a bad seatbelt body control module on the CAN bus is causing the drivetrain to shutdown without having to take it to a dealership for weeks.
This is my first Jeep, but it's in no way my first car, and I'm more concerned about the overall trend of manufacturers locking customers out of their own cars and mandating dealership visits/payments than I am about teething problems with this car.
I'll be curious to know what you all think about right to repair. I'm obviously a proponent, but there are other viewpoints.