Ranger1 wrote:
If DC has violated Federal EPA law, as well as some state laws by disabling the OBDII port, and they cannot remediate the violation without a new TCM, what choice would they have? If a CRD fails state inspection by reason of a locked OBDII port, and it needs a new TCM to take the flash update, I don't see how they can avoid replacing it. The first CRD owner who fails any state inspection that uses OBDII equipment would pose a serious problem for DC if they failed to replace any TCM that won't take the update.
there was a posting on another liberty forum last week where the CRD did exactly that, fail an emissions test after service at the dealer, unfortunatly the owner never came back and said what has happened since. I live in a county that doesn't require a emissions test yet other counties in GA do, I may get the CRD tested anyway to have it fail "on the record", right now I'm having fun with where this is going. If DC just came strait with what is going on it would save them so much money in the long run, instead they just bury their head and hope for the best. In today's information age where we all research to see if "we are not alone" with product issues they have no hope in hell of coming out of this well by their current path. ( I am a manager at a company that just did a fairly large recall, we were so open about the problem, and did the fix so quickly while giving each consumer a Ball hat that our reputation has actually gotten better because of it)
How many of us who may not be patient may become so when DC is open and showing they are trying to fix things, how many of us NOW are ready to Lemon law, NHTSB report, class action because they keep silent? We already showed as a consumer we are OK with some differences by getting a diesel, they used us as a test market but yet don't respect what the market is telling them. Corporate stupidity at it's finest.