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Here is the point. With a proprietary onboard computer system the sevicing of your vehicle will become more of a hassle the farther away from a service center that you live. Translation; when it is time to resell your auto the value will be greatest near a service center and the value will decrease as the distance from a service center increases. As time continues this market ( near a service center ) becomes saturated with aging vehicles. These vehicles will be requiring a higher rate of repair. These owners (of older vehicles) will now become more dissatissified as the market for this used vehicle is now gone. This increase in dissatistisfaction now bleeds over to the potental new vehicle costumer, costumer is lost as he or she has found a new brand too chase. This whole bill does involve VCNA and quite frankly I do not care if this bill is passed or not! Market forces will shift. Brand Loyalty can fade faster than it can be built. Systems such as those installed on my vehicle is like inbreeding of animals, it will work fine at first but will fail in upcoming generations, if information is not released at a reasonable price range to owners and independent shops. I would be a likely buyer of a scan tool, but at $1500 for a VCT2000 it seems a bit steep with the chance it will be superceded by the VCT3000? Now lets look at factory service manuals, another $2000 not to mention another computerwith Windows NT ($2000). This is all uniquely priced around the ROI of three or four years. Thank you, no. Looking for something else to drive, no longer am I an unpaid salesman for the brand. Please excuse me if I do not reply to any posts thru 7/29.
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