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.
My truck is sixteen years old. Still going strong.
if you paid 100 cash for the whole price of the car and you own the title is it yours?
Stop buying GM!!!
With bogus environmental laws they will demand any vehicle so old will have to be recycled
Great reason to not buy GM. They should have been allowed to fail.
if they own it -they can pay to fix it
Roger Sadler Why does everyone keep bringing this issue up which is decades old? It is irrelevant in the present day.
All of the campaigns and needed repairs could back it
If GM gets its way on this there will never be another GM product in my house hold
Add this to the list of why I would never buy a gm product, ever.