You can trick your whip all you want, but GM says that car is still theirs, no matter what you’ve paid. In a hearing this week, General Motors attorney Harry Lightsey said that purchasing and paying off your GM vehicle is a license agreement and not ownership.
The U.S Copyright Office is holding a hearing on whether anyone other than the vehicle’s manufacturer has the right to alter the that car’s copyrighted software. With modern design being what it is, this means almost altering anything about the vehicle.
Mechanics and private owners are saying they need to be allowed to make repairs on their vehicles to keep them running or maintain their business. But GM is saying that anyone unauthorized altering anything about the vehicle could create problems with the software and endanger the driver. This sounds more like a business ploy on the part of GM to hold a monopoly on vehicle repairs.
Read more about GM’s position on page 2.
Never bought GM never will
GM can stick it where the sun don’t shine!!!
This is the thanks the people get for bailing them out of debt with tax money. Way to go Government motors
tell that to the bank..
Don’t buy anything new from these idiots.
guy at work bought a new colorado. phone app tells everything. so the truck phones home to gm via onstar to record all fuel, speed, acceleration, deceleration braking, etc. gm has the ability to alter software settings via onstar. change a chip for performance, gm can disable the vehicle and void any warranty. all there in the paperwork you sign.
If that’s true that we’re leasing, then we get free maintenance and servicing at the Dealerships!
This is why I traded my pos chevy malibu eco for a new nissan
GM products are not worth owning I have owned 4 of them.
Basically GM is right. No one owns anything anymore. Well I do. Only cash. I have 3 cars/trucks. 78 C15, 2002 Siverado (60k miles) and a 07 HHR (62K miles) GM is right everyone needs the newest, the best, or what their neighbors have.$#%&!@*that. Instead I own 3 vehicles and don’t have to pay out hundreds a month in Payments, insurance etc.