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[–] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Good, I know which brand to stay away from when I buy a new car

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    Insanity. Like cars don’t cost enough already.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    I'm in the market for a new car in the next 6mo, and VW just got taken off the list 🤷‍♂️

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    Haha, jokes on them, the modder scene there will hack that in 30 seconds.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    sure, assuming that's possible but you'd also lose your warranty

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Like the modder scene cares about warranties. Plus dealerships lack the ability to tell when a cpu has been modded (I have friends in the scene, the stuff I've seen them do with CPUs is impressive, dealerships don't have a clue).

    Some of these mods are an external box that simply feeds the needed data to the CPU. Remove the box, no problem. Some are done inside (for racing), and you'd be hard pressed to know anythings been changed. Some is just software - good luck proving that's been changed if a cpu is dead (and dead really doesn't happen).

    Besides, warranties on car CPUs are virtually meaningless. My family/friends have been in the racing scene since the 60's, and used some of the first electronic fuel injection systems, that were analog (talk about fun to troubleshoot). We've seen a grand total of 2 cpu failures in that time...(one probably from being abused) - these things just don't die.

    Don't support the people trying to control everything with this "void your warranty" nonsense. People say this about phones too, it's just a scare tactic.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    Like the modder scene cares about warranties.

    maybe not but that's the very small minority of car owners... plus you seem to be seriously underestimating software locks

    Don't support the people trying to control everything with this "void your warranty" nonsense. People say this about phones too, it's just a scare tactic.

    it's absolutely not a scare tactic. I am completely against this garbage trend but pretending we can all risk the warranty on a 60k purchase like car racers do is ridiculous

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    It's not "increase". The correct phrasing is "remove artificial limitation".

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Next time they'd try super-stop service.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I don't get why I should be outraged by this - and I drive a VW EV.

    Just like Tesla did the same when I (unfortunately) had a car from them a few years back.

    Or USRobotics that sold me a Sportster 14.4 Vbis that was exactly the same hardware as the much more expensive 16.8 DS back in the early 90s.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Heh I had to look the last one up: https://www.ebay.com/itm/383677178842

    Anyway I guess people understandably don’t like the idea of software gated subscriptions creeping into the mechanical parts of cars. It’s not only selling the same thing for more: it’s a safety/security risk.

    Your modem card won’t kill someone if its subscription software bugs out.

    Tesla shouldn’t have done it either… honestly people just didn’t really know much about them back then.

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