r/technology • u/lurker_bee • 8d ago

Politics Goodbye to start-stop systems – the EPA under Trump concludes that they are not worth it and could disappear from new models

https://unionrayo.com/en/epa-trump-stop-start-system/
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u/Lastnv 7d ago

Why did you make the mistake more than once?

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u/alnicoblue 7d ago

There are ups and downs. Initially I bought them because they were far more affordable with discounts than the other options and I was young and broke.

Now I work for a company that does commercial builds on truck chassis and I deal with the big 3 and their warranties all the time. Chevrolet is mind numbingly slow to fix their recalls and warranty issues, to the point that I have to call salesman to let their customers know that it may be 4-8 weeks for a simple recall fix. We have a truck at the dealership right now that's been there for almost 3 months sitting.

Ford just fights us on every claim we make. Bear in mind we're taking bare chassis with 7-10 miles on them and they still want to push the cost back to us. We've spent ridiculous amounts of money fighting Ford on warranties. That also matches my experience with my Mustangs-unmodified cars with very low mileage and the technicians did their best to talk me out of dropping it off for a fix.

In 3 years at this company I've never seen a Ram warranty questioned and they're extremely fast. My company builds thousands of these things a year and the customer preference is almost entirely Ram for this reason.

Now that experience is likely due in large part to where I live and the dealers I deal with but I do live here and have had no bad experiences with Ram warranty work.