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Product Review: ScratchPro

Here at 100 Autosavant Plaza, we often get offers of product samples to evaluate.  We don’t always accept these offers, but when we feel that there may be an opportunity to solve a problem we’re facing, we do say yes.

In the case of ScratchPro, my wife’s 2008 Sienna had a few scuffs that I wanted to deal with when I was offered a sample of ScratchPro in early 2011, so I requested a product sample.  A few days later, it arrived.  And since April 2011, I have not touched the package.  It has rested on a forgotten corner of a shelf in my garage.  The scratches were still on my wife’s van, but as the van ages (we just hit the five year mark earlier this month), minor scratches bother me less and less.

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Right-to-Repair Initiative on the Ballot in Massachusetts

Decades ago, there were millions of “shade tree” mechanics who could tweak, maintain, upgrade, and repair nearly every part of their car, the same way they could work on a small engine such as a lawnmower engine.  With today’s sophisticated electronic controls managing nearly every aspect of a vehicle’s operation, those days are long gone.  In fact, many cars can’t even have symptoms diagnosed and repaired by professional mechanics with $60,000-plus diagnostic equipment due to proprietary software in their own diagnostic equipment.  The result is that new-car dealers have a captive audience that can only take cars to them for some services, and that means the dealers have a lot of pricing power.

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