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E-Bike Industry Blames Consumers For Fires In Effort To Undermine ‘Right To Repair’ Laws
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That's pretty shitty. They're probably talking internally about the fuse as if it's some type of tamper seal. But fuses blow sometimes, they're literally sacrificial. So somebody has told their support techs that anyone with that fuse blown has tampered with their battery and they're just repeating that line to customers (some guilt of tampering, some innocent).
Or maybe you just got unlucky with a dumb support tech. If that's widespread, they deserve to get sued.
Apparently some earlier models of their batteries had a user accessible hatch to change fuses, so I'm inclined to think they intentionally moved from a repairable to non-repairable model.
A blown fuse there is a pretty good indicator that the wrong kind of charger was used, which actually warrants a warranty loss.
Either that or a small power surge happened. Or the battery was defective. There are multiple things that could blow that fuse, and having a blanket "blown fuse = voided warranty" policy is stupid.