Give me anything with a carb and I can have it running right in now time give something that could have problems with the electronics and it will take a little longe. Some things should be kept to the KISS principal simple is better idk how small equipment got thrown into the ring with the emissions compliance stuff I doubt running a saw has much effect but what do I know.
Dad never ran a Mac, he went to the lumber camps at 13 in 1954; his last new saw was purchased in 1997. I think he finally gave in to his back injury from having a tree fall on him in 1991 in 1999 and called it quits.
I am absolutely certain that if Stihl can charge you a premium price and sell you more stuff they'll go for it but as far as providing a free port to help you out not a chance
Government just gave us permission to burn off 40 acres. Could see the cloud of smoke from 3 counties over, but they have cats in chainsaw mufflers. Not sure they know how to pick their battles.
Why woukd you expect it to be free?
As I recall, this started with a reference to ODB2 ports. I've never seen an upcharge for an OBD2 port in a car, or a necessity for buying the manufacturer's diagnostic tool to make use of it.
The saw mfgs have ways to hook up a saw to diagnostic tools just like a car has a ob2 port. The only differance is there is no standardization. And just like with a vehicle you have to buy a reader. Besides the standardization there is really no difference.
That depends. If your buying aftermarket reader from NAPA, if your buying a reader from GM or some other OEM their probably isn't much differance.
That is irrelevant. Stihl will make damm sure you can't buy it from anyone else and they can charge you an arm and a leg for the pleasure of doing business with them,
The saw market is very small compared to automotive so third parry companies won't have any motivation to make readers for Stihl saws. Stihl is no different than any other company in regards to wanting you to buy parts and accessories from them. Husky certainly does this. And a dealer can not legally deny warranty based on not using stihl oil.
Husky operates no different than Stihl. In fact Autotune was brought to market by husky before Mtronic.
Car diagnostics started _very_ proprietary too (of course), even with different connectors/protocols between different models of the same brand. Do I need to mention chargers for cell phones? Mfgs will try to screw you like that at every chance they get. And in the end it is almost always decided that it is smarter to develop standards and use these (like OBD2). Of course, next step will be that the mfg thinks of a new feature ("innovation") that "absolutely" cannot be integrated in the standard way of doing things and we start the same dance all over...
In my opinion, all vehicles should be made of entirely stainless steel, or perhaps aluminum. The idea that we still have vehicles rusting when the technology exists to prevent rust entirely is crazy.
You don’t want aluminum at least the way the new Ford f series is they peel open like pop cans over the slightest little bumps and the frames are like 12ga sheet metal in thickness and steel.
