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Right to Repair - UK and EU making changes to facilitate repairs :)
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Retep:

--- Quote from: SilverSolder on March 10, 2021, 01:11:14 pm ---
What are all the brexitard^h^h^h^h^h  freedom loving leave voters going to think about staying in sync with the Brussels tyranny??

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You should be grateful instead of insulting those who liberated our country. If it weren't for the Brexiteers EU soldiers would still be marching in our streets and our children would be forced to speak EUan or whatever funny language they speak over there.
SilverSolder:

--- Quote from: Fraser on March 10, 2021, 01:59:04 pm ---I owned an Audi TT in 2002 and wanted the service manual for it. Audi UK virtually laughed in my face when I asked to buy one. I found out that in the USA Audi had to offer the Service Manual in order to comply with US law. They provide those manuals via an approved source/agent and I ordered my TT manual from them. They shipped it to the UK without question and it was around £70. Not exactly cheap but at least it was not crazy expensive.

When I went into the UK dealer parts area to buy an official Audi spare lamp set I took the service manual printout of the cars lamp details with me. The Parts guy gave me an Official Audi spare lamp set and I compared the contents to what my TT used. The parts guy was horrified ! I discovered that almost every lamp my TT used was NOT in the official TT spare lamp kit .... I showed the service manual page to the parts guy and the first thing he said was “where did you get that, you are not allowed to have a service manual “  :-DD I explained the US law on such matters to him. The guy calmed down and built me a bespoke spare lamp kit from the service manual listing that contained more lamps, and expensive ones at that, before charging me the standard, reasonable, price of the generic spares kit.

The look on that parts guys face when he saw I had ‘priviledged’ information still makes me smile.... he was truly horrified that a member of the Public could check on his part numbers etc  :-DD Happy days.

Fraser

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LOL!  -  The trend that corporations don't want a "black economy" of people fixing things has been around a long time.   I recall having a student job at a VW importer/ wholesaler, supplying cars and spares on a nationwide basis.  One day, they were clearing out the stock room of old parts, throwing them in a big skip outside.   I had started helping myself to a few parts for my old jalopy...   when the foreman came out of his office and told me off!  "These parts are to be scrapped, they may not be sold or used in any way - it affects market demand!".

So we are not just battling planned obsolescence, we are battling the fact that there is really no such thing as a "free market" in anything.
themadhippy:

--- Quote ---EU soldiers would still be marching in our streets
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wot like the polish who came  to Britain during ww2 to get us out the shit
CJay:
Aaaand there we go, another thread to mute because of trolling.
SilverSolder:

--- Quote from: Retep on March 10, 2021, 02:17:39 pm ---
--- Quote from: SilverSolder on March 10, 2021, 01:11:14 pm ---
What are all the brexitard^h^h^h^h^h  freedom loving leave voters going to think about staying in sync with the Brussels tyranny??

--- End quote ---
You should be grateful instead of insulting those who liberated our country. If it weren't for the Brexiteers EU soldiers would still be marching in our streets and our children would be forced to speak EUan or whatever funny language they speak over there.

--- End quote ---

I guess we could do like Farage and get an EU passport from Germany, while dropping the rest of his countrymen into a two-class society: those with an EU passport, and those who have less opportunities.  There is no way around the truth of that.   The rich and the smart find workarounds, the little guys pay.
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