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How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas (sherwood.news)

submitted 6 months ago by mesamunefire@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] ezmac@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

I believe Honda started this in the early 2000s because they found that transmissions were compromised at earlier mileages at a much more frequent rate from leaks, bad fluid changes, or missing the intervals, than were actually failing from use. So they designed the cars for how they were actually being used and maintained. It’s kind of a non-issue unless you’ve got 300k+ miles on your transmission, at which point you’d expect to potentially replace it anyway.