Message-ID: <63f53afd@news.ausics.net> From: not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) Subject: Re: Short name for USB Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc References: <1crvbgma7vk4x$.dlg@10235314.user.individual.de> <2iednQq3V55KvHb-nZ2dnZfqn_ednZ2d@earthlink.com> <63f15dee@news.ausics.net> <63f2a6be@news.ausics.net> <0i0bcjxks1.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <63f31add@news.ausics.net> <63f3d1c4@news.ausics.net> User-Agent: tin/2.0.1-20111224 ("Achenvoir") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.31 (i586)) NNTP-Posting-Host: news.ausics.net Date: 22 Feb 2023 07:43:26 +1000 Organization: Ausics - https://www.ausics.net Lines: 50 X-Complaints: abuse@ausics.net Path: csiph.com!news.bbs.nz!news.ausics.net!not-for-mail Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:37212 The Natural Philosopher wrote: > On 20/02/2023 20:02, Computer Nerd Kev wrote: >>> And the ability to >>> replace broken parts after they have been identified. If that broken >>> part is a box with a 100pin connector and a heatsink its no different >>> from a worn distributor or carburettor. >> >> Except the lack of availability from 3rd party parts manufacturers, >> and corresponding implications with price and wait time. >> > In Europe at least there has been legislation to open up specifications > to third party suppliers so that the spares business doesn't become a > customer gouging dealership monopoly. > > And remember, the car manufacturers don't actually manufacture cars: > they assemble them from components supplied by specialist manufacturers. > There are only around 6 manufacturers of gearboxes, engines, injection > systems etc etc. And even they don't manufacture everything. > > After market parts *work* , mostly. An oxygen sensor is an oxygen sensor > and probably is sourced by the manufacturer from more than one supplier, > who are free to supply the after market as well. All agreed, but you're talking about the parts in IC cars. What I was responding to is where you claimed that electronic modules in electric cars, things like battery charger, inverter, main computer, are the same to deal with as something like a worn distributor or carburettor. They're not, because these modules are only sold by the car company. I'd be surprised if Europe was demanding that they open up specs for _that_ side of things, and it must be quite a new thing if they are. This is the same as with electronic modules in IC cars, but electric cars just have more electronics (and higher power stuff, which is more likely to go wrong in general), so it's more significant for repairing them, and it all goes back to the fact that electric cars are more complicated and therefore most of their critical parts can't be reverse-engineered easily by 3rd party parts manufacturers, like an oxygen sensor or distributor cap can. I've heard many such stories about dead electronic modules in IC vehicles. The latest one was someone I know who had a motor controller computer fail, with a replacement module costing around $1000, and last time I heard it had been well over a month waiting for the new part to arrive at the mechanic's. What model car? No, this is actually for an off-road quad bike (a common model too)! -- __ __ #_ < |\| |< _#