Tesla Technical Service Info Offered Free?

wow, that is a paradigm change

 

Yeah, saw that in my phone's feed this morning.
Tesla releases service manuals, diagnostic tools, more for free - Electrek

It is because Mass. passed a 'right to repair' initiative. Like other companies, Tesla lobbied against it, but might be following the people's will in this case. You have to register through the Chinese version of their service site to get the free access.

 

Comments on the Elektrek article kindly shared by @Trollbait say that no-charge access is no longer available.

 

IMHO, right to repair should be a USA national policy.

FYI, I paid the fee about half a year ago to repair my Model 3. It was cheaper than hiring someone else.

Bob Wilson

 

A few years back, if I googled "Toyota Tech Info (subject)", I seemed to bypass the paywall, was able to snag a few things. Guess it was a glitch, and they sewed it up.

But hey Toyota: you could be first-on-the-block: those people that handed you $30~50K for a new shiney car, give them a break...

 

As long as manufacturers are beholden to dealers to sell their cars, whose interests will they be interested in protecting? As long as politicians are writing the laws, whose contributions will they be accepting? Not Joe owner, but big bucks dealer association's. Blame your election financing system and laws folks. It is simple: money talks, owners only squawk. And there are darn few owners these days that would want to work on a car. I think the last car I worked on was a '99. After that they became both more reliable and more complex and even with a OBD reader and documentation that cost $800 I let the expert handle all but the easy stuff. For the simple stuff, I still shop around for the best price.

 

Free Shop Manuals would be VERY helpful for independent shops too.

 

The access we get from Toyota now is pretty much what the Massachusetts RTR law of several years ago required. That one didn't say anything had to be free, only "available" for a "reasonable" rate, and didn't require opening the diagnostic software, but only making it "available" which is why we're stuck with closed-source, Windows-only Techstream.

After lobbying against RTR laws generally, the manufacturers looked at that one from MA and said "all right, we'll agree to this nationwide" to head off some other state maybe passing a more meaningful one.

 

the new one that just passed is about selling personal info, not repair. the chains want it badly

 

Geesh, that's roughly what Honda Shop Manuals used to cost, paper tomes about the dims of a Greater Van phone book.

Anyone remember phone books?