Stop the REPAIR Act

It’s your repair. Your safety. Keep insurance companies out of the driver’s seat.

Learn more about how insurance companies and their co-conspirators are pushing the REPAIR Act which threatens safety and independent repair shops.

The REPAIR Act—What’s really under the hood?

Giant insurance companies and big parts sellers worked to create a bill in Washington called the REPAIR Act requiring automakers to provide direct access to your vehicle’s data and driving systems which they can use to set your rates.

They claim this is necessary repair information. It’s not. Manufacturers already provide the standardized info needed for repairs while protecting your personal driving data, location history and biometric info – none of which is needed to make a repair.

Insurance companies and their partners support the REPAIR Act because it lets them decide how to service your car, the quality of the parts, and even what safety fixes to skip.

If that sounds unsafe and unfair, it’s because it is.

There needs to be a better solution – that’s where the SAFE Repair Act comes in. Learn more.

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What the REPAIR Act gets wrong. They claim that…

Claim

Fact

“Automakers are restricting access to repairs.”

Truth is Automotive Manufacturers (OEMs) have a decades-long commitment to providing repair data:

Signed agreement in 2002 between OEMs and independent repair shops assuring consumers and repairers have the same vehicle service information and training as franchised car dealers
In 2023, OEMs strengthened their commitment by signing a Repair Data Sharing Agreement, ensuring independent shops continue to have the data they need to fix vehicles
Independent repair shops handle 75% of post-warranty repairs – which creates over $545 billions of business, expected to grow to $617 billion in 2027. Repair access is growing, not disappearing
Existing after-market products use repair information and procedures provided by OEMs to enable repair for at least 95% of vehicles on the road.

Where to Access OEM Repair Data and Information:

OEM1Stop

A centralized portal created by automakers, OEM1Stop provides direct access to each manufacturer’s service and repair information. Visit website

OEC Repair Logic

The RepairLogic Repair Planning Platform promotes safe & proper repair through easy access to OEM repair information, digital collaboration tools, and advanced documentation capabilities. Visit website

Mitchell1 ProDemand

A professional-grade platform offering comprehensive vehicle diagnostics, service schedules, and OEM repair data. Visit website

ALLDATA

Trusted by hundreds of thousands of technicians, and over one hundred thousand repair shops worldwide. ALLDATA, an AutoZone company, delivers OEM repair procedures, wiring diagrams, and technical service bulletins for all major manufacturers. Visit website

Sun Collision

Offers OEM-based repair information for collision repair professionals, including diagnostics and ADAS repair procedures. Visit website

Identifix Direct-Hit

An industry-leading repair information platform combining real-world diagnostics with OEM repair info and service bulletins. Visit website

CCC Repair Methods

Access OEM repair methods and collision procedures directly through CCC’s professional collision repair platform. Visit website

Mitchell TechAdvisor

An online tool for collision repair professionals offering up-to-date OEM repair and structural information. Visit website

National Automotive Service Task Force (NASTF)

Facilitates the identification and correction of gaps in the availability and accessibility of automotive service information, training, diagnostic tools and equipment, and communications to automotive service professionals. Visit website

“The REPAIR Act helps small business and levels the playing field.”

Then why is it backed by giant insurance companies and large national auto parts chains? The REPAIR Act would give third parties access to sensitive data; not to fix your car, but in ways that could expose consumers to privacy and cyber risks if those companies don’t maintain strict controls. Consumers should be concerned when entities without direct repair responsibilities gain access to personal information.

“Consumers should be able to fix their vehicles where they want.”

They already can. Consumers can take their car to the shop of their choice and independent repairers have access to all repair and diagnostics data. As a result, 75% of post-warranty repairs are done outside of the dealer network.

“This is about your rights as a consumer.”

Consumers should have choice in how their vehicle is repaired and confidence it will be done safely. Every day about independent repair shops deal with insurer overreach that compromises safe repairs — from slashing repair estimates without inspecting the car, to offering consumers cash payouts to skip needed repairs altogether. The REPAIR Act not only limits your choices, it is a blank check for third parties to access, monetize, and potentially resell your information.

Why is the REPAIR Act bad? Hear what independent repair shops and consumers are saying.

Automotive “Right to Repair” Isn’t Going Away

Posted by Justin Lewis, owner of Accurate Auto Body Inc. in Redmond, Washington

I’m seeing ads all over social media about automotive right to repair making bogus. This would freak me out, too—if it were true.

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Don’t fall for the REPAIR Act

By John Bozzella President and CEO, Alliance for Automotive Innovation

The hellscape for independent automotive repairers described by Stephen Moore in “Congress can help auto repair shops keep America running (Web, Oct. 6) is, let’s just say, not accurate.

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Independent mechanics aren’t locked out of fixing your vehicle

By Kyle Bradshaw

Across social media, ads and op-eds are claiming that automakers are shutting out small repair shops like mine. They say we can’t get the tools, data, or information needed to fix your car.

That simply isn’t true.

Read Article

SAFE Repair Act—Trusted by Professionals

How do we put safety back in the hands of drivers? The SAFE Repair Act.

What does The SAFE Repair Act do?

Promotes healthy competition, guaranteeing independent repair businesses continue to have commensurate access to vehicle repair information as automakers’ franchised dealers and in-house repair facilities.

Empowers to decide where their vehicle is repaired, the parts used in the repairs, and confirm the vehicle is repaired properly.

Prioritizes consumer safety, ensuring repairers can follow engineer-recommended safety standards and procedures—not insurer-mandated shortcuts – to protect the vehicle owner and the motoring public.

Adds visibility and transparency to the second-hand market through disclosure and inspection requirements.

Quite simply, the SAFE Repair Act puts repair decisions in the hands of consumers.

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I’m an independent repair business, how would the SAFE Repair Act help me?

Provides parity between franchised dealers, auto manufacturers’ in-house repair facilities and independent repair facilities in accessing vehicle diagnostic and repair systems, tools and data – including telematics data –needed to perform repairs.

Ensures independent businesses can repair vehicles in accordance with information and procedures produced by vehicle engineers for the specific purpose of restoring that vehicle’s features, performance, safety systems and structure to full functionality.

I’m a consumer, how would the SAFE Repair Act impact me?

This bill makes it easier for you to receive a safe and proper repair by a repairer of your choosing.

You get to decide where your vehicle gets repaired.

Pick the parts you want.

No matter what kind of part you choose, this bill ensures all replacement parts carry the same recall and safety protections for you.

Helps ensure your vehicle-generated data and safety critical systems in your vehicle remain protected from unauthorized access.

You have more options to choose from, because there is a vibrant competitive landscape of service providers and parts for vehicles.

As a result of new periodic safety inspection and post-collision inspection programs, you are more informed when purchasing a vehicle or receiving a repair.

Where the rubber meets the road.

The SAFE Repair Act is backed by independent repair shop organizations and consumer protection organizations and focuses on safe, transparent, and fair vehicle repairs.

Big insurance and auto parts retailers want full access to your vehicle’s data with no accountability for how it is used and to choose the part that’s the cheapest for them – not the safest for you – and are trying to use the REPAIR Act to do that.

That’s not repair freedom – that’s insurance companies and retailers putting their profit ahead of your safety.