Trump Learns of Right to Repair Battle from Ford and GM, Farley Responds
Key takeaways
- The president finds the fight 'strange' and says the federal government is going to do something to help owners.
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- Farley also said owner repairs have to be done at a reasonable cost, but he didn't elaborate on what that means in terms of Right to Repair.
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The president finds the fight 'strange' and says the federal government is going to do something to help owners.
MANDEL NGAN|Getty Images President Trump recently said Ford and GM asked him to restrict owners' right to repair, a long-standing battle between the two sides that he vowed to resolve.Ford CEO Jim Farley responded to Trump's comments, defending his company's stance in an interview with the Detroit Free Press.Despite a 2014 voluntary memorandum in which major automakers agreed to share diagnostic and repair information with owners and independent shops, the agreement is non-binding and has no enforcement mechanism. In a recent Oval Office meeting to discuss upgrading coal plants, President Donald Trump mentioned a June 3 visit he had with representatives from Ford, General Motors, and Roger Penske, the race team owner and leader of an auto-dealer empire. They had met to discuss Right to Repair laws with the president, who made it sound like this was the first time he had heard of such legislation, calling it "strange" and claiming that automakers "don't want people to fix their car."
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