diff --git a/collector/ethtool_linux.go b/collector/ethtool_linux.go
index 912e31e5..3e01c29c 100644
--- a/collector/ethtool_linux.go
+++ b/collector/ethtool_linux.go
@@ -20,29 +20,22 @@
 package collector
 
 import (
-	"bufio"
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
-	"path/filepath"
 	"regexp"
 	"sort"
-	"strconv"
-	"strings"
-	"syscall"
 
 	"github.com/go-kit/kit/log"
 	"github.com/go-kit/kit/log/level"
 	"github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus"
 	"github.com/prometheus/procfs/sysfs"
 	"github.com/safchain/ethtool"
-	"gopkg.in/alecthomas/kingpin.v2"
 )
 
 var (
 	receivedRegex    = regexp.MustCompile(`_rx_`)
 	transmittedRegex = regexp.MustCompile(`_tx_`)
-	ethtoolFixtures  = kingpin.Flag("collector.ethtool.fixtures", "test fixtures to use for ethtool collector end-to-end testing").Default("").String()
 )
 
 type EthtoolStats interface {
@@ -63,56 +56,6 @@ type ethtoolCollector struct {
 	stats   EthtoolStats
 }
 
-type EthtoolFixture struct {
-	fixturePath string
-}
-
-func (e *EthtoolFixture) Stats(intf string) (map[string]uint64, error) {
-	res := make(map[string]uint64)
-
-	fixtureFile, err := os.Open(filepath.Join(e.fixturePath, intf))
-	if e, ok := err.(*os.PathError); ok && e.Err == syscall.ENOENT {
-		// The fixture for this interface doesn't exist. That's OK because it replicates
-		// an interface that doesn't support ethtool.
-		return res, nil
-	}
-	if err != nil {
-		return res, err
-	}
-	defer fixtureFile.Close()
-
-	scanner := bufio.NewScanner(fixtureFile)
-	for scanner.Scan() {
-		line := scanner.Text()
-		if strings.HasPrefix(line, "#") {
-			continue
-		}
-		if strings.HasPrefix(line, "NIC statistics:") {
-			continue
-		}
-		line = strings.Trim(line, " ")
-		items := strings.Split(line, ": ")
-		val, err := strconv.ParseUint(items[1], 10, 64)
-		if err != nil {
-			return res, err
-		}
-		res[items[0]] = val
-	}
-
-	return res, err
-}
-
-func NewEthtoolTestCollector(logger log.Logger) (Collector, error) {
-	collector, err := makeEthtoolCollector(logger)
-	collector.stats = &EthtoolFixture{
-		fixturePath: *ethtoolFixtures,
-	}
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
-	return collector, nil
-}
-
 // makeEthtoolCollector is the internal constructor for EthtoolCollector.
 // This allows NewEthtoolTestCollector to override it's .stats interface
 // for testing.
@@ -173,11 +116,6 @@ func init() {
 
 // NewEthtoolCollector returns a new Collector exposing ethtool stats.
 func NewEthtoolCollector(logger log.Logger) (Collector, error) {
-	// Specifying --collector.ethtool.fixtures on the command line activates
-	// the test fixtures. This is for `end-to-end-test.sh`
-	if *ethtoolFixtures != "" {
-		return NewEthtoolTestCollector(logger)
-	}
 	return makeEthtoolCollector(logger)
 }
 
diff --git a/collector/ethtool_linux_test.go b/collector/ethtool_linux_test.go
index 28f1b70e..8aaeed3a 100644
--- a/collector/ethtool_linux_test.go
+++ b/collector/ethtool_linux_test.go
@@ -14,13 +14,69 @@
 package collector
 
 import (
+	"bufio"
 	"fmt"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strconv"
+	"strings"
+	"syscall"
 	"testing"
 
 	"github.com/go-kit/kit/log"
 	"github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus"
 )
 
+type EthtoolFixture struct {
+	fixturePath string
+}
+
+func (e *EthtoolFixture) Stats(intf string) (map[string]uint64, error) {
+	res := make(map[string]uint64)
+
+	fixtureFile, err := os.Open(filepath.Join(e.fixturePath, intf))
+	if e, ok := err.(*os.PathError); ok && e.Err == syscall.ENOENT {
+		// The fixture for this interface doesn't exist. That's OK because it replicates
+		// an interface that doesn't support ethtool.
+		return res, nil
+	}
+	if err != nil {
+		return res, err
+	}
+	defer fixtureFile.Close()
+
+	scanner := bufio.NewScanner(fixtureFile)
+	for scanner.Scan() {
+		line := scanner.Text()
+		if strings.HasPrefix(line, "#") {
+			continue
+		}
+		if strings.HasPrefix(line, "NIC statistics:") {
+			continue
+		}
+		line = strings.Trim(line, " ")
+		items := strings.Split(line, ": ")
+		val, err := strconv.ParseUint(items[1], 10, 64)
+		if err != nil {
+			return res, err
+		}
+		res[items[0]] = val
+	}
+
+	return res, err
+}
+
+func NewEthtoolTestCollector(logger log.Logger) (Collector, error) {
+	collector, err := makeEthtoolCollector(logger)
+	collector.stats = &EthtoolFixture{
+		fixturePath: "fixtures/ethtool/",
+	}
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return collector, nil
+}
+
 func TestEthtoolCollector(t *testing.T) {
 	testcases := []string{
 		prometheus.NewDesc("node_ethtool_align_errors", "Network interface align_errors", []string{"device"}, nil).String(),
@@ -37,7 +93,6 @@ func TestEthtoolCollector(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 
 	*sysPath = "fixtures/sys"
-	*ethtoolFixtures = "fixtures/ethtool/"
 
 	collector, err := NewEthtoolTestCollector(log.NewNopLogger())
 	if err != nil {
diff --git a/collector/fixtures/e2e-output.txt b/collector/fixtures/e2e-output.txt
index 5f3c3e0e..e04cb0cc 100644
--- a/collector/fixtures/e2e-output.txt
+++ b/collector/fixtures/e2e-output.txt
@@ -657,45 +657,6 @@ node_entropy_available_bits 1337
 # HELP node_entropy_pool_size_bits Bits of entropy pool.
 # TYPE node_entropy_pool_size_bits gauge
 node_entropy_pool_size_bits 4096
-# HELP node_ethtool_align_errors Network interface align_errors
-# TYPE node_ethtool_align_errors untyped
-node_ethtool_align_errors{device="eth0"} 0
-# HELP node_ethtool_received_broadcast Network interface rx_broadcast
-# TYPE node_ethtool_received_broadcast untyped
-node_ethtool_received_broadcast{device="eth0"} 5792
-# HELP node_ethtool_received_errors_total Number of received frames with errors
-# TYPE node_ethtool_received_errors_total untyped
-node_ethtool_received_errors_total{device="eth0"} 0
-# HELP node_ethtool_received_missed Network interface rx_missed
-# TYPE node_ethtool_received_missed untyped
-node_ethtool_received_missed{device="eth0"} 401
-# HELP node_ethtool_received_multicast Network interface rx_multicast
-# TYPE node_ethtool_received_multicast untyped
-node_ethtool_received_multicast{device="eth0"} 23973
-# HELP node_ethtool_received_packets_total Network interface packets received
-# TYPE node_ethtool_received_packets_total untyped
-node_ethtool_received_packets_total{device="eth0"} 1.260062e+06
-# HELP node_ethtool_received_unicast Network interface rx_unicast
-# TYPE node_ethtool_received_unicast untyped
-node_ethtool_received_unicast{device="eth0"} 1.230297e+06
-# HELP node_ethtool_transmitted_aborted Network interface tx_aborted
-# TYPE node_ethtool_transmitted_aborted untyped
-node_ethtool_transmitted_aborted{device="eth0"} 0
-# HELP node_ethtool_transmitted_errors_total Number of sent frames with errors
-# TYPE node_ethtool_transmitted_errors_total untyped
-node_ethtool_transmitted_errors_total{device="eth0"} 0
-# HELP node_ethtool_transmitted_multi_collisions Network interface tx_multi_collisions
-# TYPE node_ethtool_transmitted_multi_collisions untyped
-node_ethtool_transmitted_multi_collisions{device="eth0"} 0
-# HELP node_ethtool_transmitted_packets_total Network interface packets sent
-# TYPE node_ethtool_transmitted_packets_total untyped
-node_ethtool_transmitted_packets_total{device="eth0"} 961500
-# HELP node_ethtool_transmitted_single_collisions Network interface tx_single_collisions
-# TYPE node_ethtool_transmitted_single_collisions untyped
-node_ethtool_transmitted_single_collisions{device="eth0"} 0
-# HELP node_ethtool_transmitted_underrun Network interface tx_underrun
-# TYPE node_ethtool_transmitted_underrun untyped
-node_ethtool_transmitted_underrun{device="eth0"} 0
 # HELP node_exporter_build_info A metric with a constant '1' value labeled by version, revision, branch, and goversion from which node_exporter was built.
 # TYPE node_exporter_build_info gauge
 # HELP node_fibrechannel_error_frames_total Number of errors in frames
@@ -2784,7 +2745,6 @@ node_scrape_collector_success{collector="diskstats"} 1
 node_scrape_collector_success{collector="drbd"} 1
 node_scrape_collector_success{collector="edac"} 1
 node_scrape_collector_success{collector="entropy"} 1
-node_scrape_collector_success{collector="ethtool"} 1
 node_scrape_collector_success{collector="fibrechannel"} 1
 node_scrape_collector_success{collector="filefd"} 1
 node_scrape_collector_success{collector="hwmon"} 1
diff --git a/end-to-end-test.sh b/end-to-end-test.sh
index 9de1e980..d87162fe 100755
--- a/end-to-end-test.sh
+++ b/end-to-end-test.sh
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ enabled_collectors=$(cat << COLLECTORS
   drbd
   edac
   entropy
-  ethtool
   fibrechannel
   filefd
   hwmon
@@ -110,7 +109,6 @@ fi
   --collector.qdisc.fixtures="collector/fixtures/qdisc/" \
   --collector.netclass.ignored-devices="(dmz|int)" \
   --collector.netclass.ignore-invalid-speed \
-  --collector.ethtool.fixtures="collector/fixtures/ethtool/" \
   --collector.bcache.priorityStats \
   --collector.cpu.info \
   --collector.cpu.info.flags-include="^(aes|avx.?|constant_tsc)$" \