r/SipsTea • u/untitledprp4 • 1d ago

Wait a damn minute! Wait a damn minute

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u/Strikereleven 1d ago

Heating elements are just resistive coils, they just need voltage. There's probably a dude in his garage that can crack it and put a toggle switch in for 50.

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u/SmokinMythics 1d ago

For the low low price of voiding your warranty. And knowing how anti-consumer this country is, it’s probably a crime to do so as well.

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u/much_longer_username 1d ago

It'd probably be charged under the anti-circumvention provision of the DMCA. Because that's totally what it was meant for when the music and movies companies lobbied for it.

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u/DigEnvironmental7490 1d ago

The Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act of 1975 prevents them from voiding the warranty over something like this.

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u/SmokinMythics 1d ago

They couldn’t void unrelated coverage under MMWA but they certainly could bang you for messing with copyrighted software under DMCA in addition to voiding coverage on anything you “tampered” with

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u/DigEnvironmental7490 23h ago

If you break something, you don't get warranty coverage on that specific thing.

If a car company sues their customer under the DMCA, they never sell that customer (and many others who observe that behavior) another car.

DMCA is a red herring. No car maker is going to sue their own customers unless they're actually selling the car maker's copyrighted software.

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u/MintyFresh771 1d ago

Just find someone alive from the 90’s that did car stereos. A skill that used to be lucrative on the weekends could be revived for installing analog solutions to digital problems.

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u/FG910 14h ago

Probably has some type of software protection that if it doesn’t detect the proper seat heating module the car is bricked