[Zeke]

There are some practical issues at stake here. This is not a new situation but a dire situation where a major piece of harvesting machinery sits in a field of ready to harvest crops and won't move, even in a limp mode. And the farmer is at the mercy of the dealer and manufacturer to get his machine in working order when it only needed a minor non critical part. Like cab A/C or something not inherently dangerous to the crops or operator(s).

You can hamstring someone just so much. When a half a million dollar machine ends up costing you another million in crop loss, you are going to get angry with the system.