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Yes, I am no lawyer but I can’t see how that is anything but a ham fisted and customer unfriendly attempt to intimidate you with a thinly veiled threat with no substance behind it. Probably the best they could attempt might be infringement of copyright by publishing materials in full, but I suspect that is also a long bow.
Yes, there's definitely a story behind this!
I agree to a degree, but find it hard to believe that any vehicle was built without a design freeze and "as built" spec/drawings being signed off.The only generous spin I can put on the complete lack of useful technical and operational information for owners is that this process is a bit like building an aeroplane in flight and they aren’t ready to publish this stuff because they are still making changes during production and so can’t finalise the documentation. But that’s a story in itself. And again something that could be addressed with some transparency if they are clear that information is provisional and subject to revision.
Sure as issues are found and sorted, drawings will be "up rev'd". Indeed, such changes would be normal if new materials, suppliers, or parts were being introduced.
We only need to look at the transfer cases to see there was a B spec introduced very shortly after the start of production.
They must be using CAD-IT in some form, whether it's fully populated or not shouldn't matter.