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Can’t Tesla disable your car remotely? I sure hope there are folks like rossman around that become dedicated car electronic folks.yea you can't even get an aftermarket or third party head unit anymore for these "modern" cars
and once they stop rolling out Over The Air updates and firmwares to your various ECUs, the cars become unsupported, unwarrantable (even by third party extension services) and just bricks that won't start anymore
European junk buys American junk to make the ultimate junk cars.
All my cars have aftermarket stereos in them and I'm even in the process of putting one in the 2012 CT200h that I rebuilt the engine. It's much easier to do this with older cars since they all went with 1din and 2din standards. No such thing as standards anymore in the car industry.
My sisters 2006 Acura MDX had internal bleeding of transmission fluid with coolant. This is a death sentence for any transmission and it definitely took out the MDX's as well. Now I gotta see what the cost of a rebuilt transmission for this car. Also, every bolt was rusted to not a hexagon shape. One good thing about German cars is that you rarely if ever see this level of rust.
Should have asked for your money and moved to another shop for a proper alignment.
You can if you know where to look. It won't be any reputable brand but they do make them. It'll be tailor made for that car and sometimes things like climate controls become part of the head unit itself. It's mostly an Android device with CarPlay and Android Auto. Which is already an upgrade over what new cars come with since a lot of them don't even include either now. No subscription fees either.yea you can't even get an aftermarket or third party head unit anymore for these "modern" cars
and once they stop rolling out Over The Air updates and firmwares to your various ECUs, the cars become unsupported, unwarrantable (even by third party extension services) and just bricks that won't start anymore
Most automakers can do that if your vehicle has a cellular connection. (Doesn't matter if you're subscribed or not) My friend who works at Mercedes said he was responsible for testing that feature on his dev team. My coworker who worked at Ford said they had that feature visible in their cyber security software to push that command. And of course all GM vehicles with OnStar present onboard have had that feature for over a decade now.
If you get high risk loans they will install a module to give them that ability still. They won't disable it while you are at the store or anything but once you get back home they kill it and come get it in the morning. Usually it is after they have tried to get ahold of you and you don't return calls. Watched this happen to a friend few years ago. Turns out when you buy something and don't pay for it, they want it back haha.
They don't always have to install a module either. Tesla's and I think OnStar can do this from the factory. Dealers that aren't affiliated with the car manufacturer will install their own remove shut off. There have been cases where people would lose power while driving and cause an accident. So now the remote disable just cuts off the wire to the starter itself, which makes it easy to find it and remove it. Car manufacturers have no problem giving you a feature that allows them to take the car back, which is a reminder that you don't own the car you paid for.
And it also does not let them mine data from you from all your usage and when you connect your mobile device and allow it to store all of your contacts, text messages and other data...
I assume that was "any new car", because I don't recall a mandate to install such a feature in older cars, but I admit that's nitpicking.
One of these days I want to disable that. There's videos on youtube about how to do it, but you gotta be careful because, probably to try to stop people, the module is frequently physically next to the trigger module for airbags, so that if you're not careful, you might set 'em off removing the thing. (Oh, wait, that was actually the module that records OBD data, IIRC.)
