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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: Your father's old car was presumably sold to him as "the last car he'll ever need to buy".
My dad was a mechanic for a new car dealer for over 40 years, he knows all the types of salesguys that get hired (and fired). If one tried to sell him a car as such, he would've been made very well aware his BS wasn't gonna fly with him.
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Car manufacturers should perhaps install a big Red button near the dashboard, saying
DISABLE ALL MOBILE CONTROLS TO THIS CAR. (Till i manually turn them on via hardware).
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dandy72 wrote: It annoys me to no end, knowing these possibilities, that dealers could be so careless.
It's likely most dealer don't even know this, so it's not carelessness, it's ignorance.
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I've seen (without seeking them out) countless articles and TV shows where these sorts of things are discussed and demonstrated; cars have had remote features for many years now--these guys are aware of what's going on in the industry.
So at this point in time, if dealers aren't aware of this, it's not ignorance, I insist it is outright carelessness.
modified 16-Feb-24 9:30am.
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dandy72 wrote: if dealers aren't aware of this
Perhaps 'dealer' singular rather than plural?
Or even maybe there is no way, on an older car, to do anything about it?
Googling suggests that it is possible to do a factory reset on at least some cars which support pairing. Seems like something more reputable dealers would probably do.
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jschell wrote: Or even maybe there is no way, on an older car, to do anything about it?
We're talking about 2022 vs 2023.
jschell wrote: Seems like something more reputable dealers would probably do.
...if you ask them the right salesguy who happens to know anything at all about the products he's selling.
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dandy72 wrote: if you ask them the right salesguy
I know reputable dealers look over used cars and even make some repairs. So process of doing that would be to do a reset.
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... that's when I watch anything, which is pretty much only when i am eating, because my anxiety issues preclude any drama or "cringe humor".
Anyway, on the show Wheeler Dealers, Elvis the mechanic was rechipping a little Fiat sports car, and the remap chip was an ST. I use STs professionally. Not for remapping ECU fuel/air tables but still, I thought it was neat.
I'm interested in metal fab, hot rodding (or otherwise voiding a warranty), and gonzo engineering so it's fun to see a little bit of that crossover into what I do.
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I think Wheeler Dealers lost something when Ed China left!
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Everybody says that!
And "Ant sucks. It's not his fault, it's just him" 
I liked Ant.
And Elvis is great too.
I guess Ed was my favorite mechanic, thinking on it.
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Well, Ed was there at the start ok the first few episodes looking at them now you can see the 'cringe' (I don't really know what to say...). Well last I heard he was going to try to take back the his fastest 'living room' record...
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I watch mechanics like South Main Auto and Ramyond Ray's Repairs.
I really don't know why.
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I'll have to see if I can find those on motortrend.
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Are you a fan of Doug DeMuro too?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I like wheeler dealer, too.
I can also recommend youtube channel "flying sparks garage".
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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sounds like cheap therapy. You're going to be fine. 
And I'm pretty messed up at the moment. I refuse to take anymore prescriptions.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Yeah I'm done with anxiety meds unless they give me something strong prescribed PRN, but I think that would just knock me out.
I've gotten pretty good at heading off panic attacks using mental exercises, but they don't help much with generalized anxiety itself.
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Chipping a car is something I've always wanted to do. For years. I spent my misguided youth restoring cars but as soon as ECUs became the norm I was both so excited at the possibilities and so frustrated at my lack of available tooling and knowledge to do it.
Anyone want to write a quick article on how to mod the firmware of a modern car?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I think I probably just want to fiddle with features rather than remapping. I think you'd need a decent dyno and a lot of testing to really know how best to remap things.
One think that drives me nuts is my car will open the tailgate when there's an obstruction a foot away. I have a lot of scrapes on that tailgate now because if you lean on the carkey accidentally the tailgate opens. It has proximity sensors. It should know not to open the gate. And yet.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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You can rent dyno time. It's not horribly pricey.
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There was a meme in a mechanics forum recently about "getting to the guy who has a bad cylinder fire now that he replaced his ECU chip with one he found on eBay".
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In my childhood, I was fascinated by a couple of short stories in the weekend supplement of Norway's biggest newspaper ("Aftenposten"), and wanted to read them again. So I sent a request to the 'Ask a librarian' service at the Norwegian library. I could tell the author, 'probably in the early 70s, but could be the late 60s', an approximate title of one of the stories, a rough outline of the other. That was all I could give as clues.
The National Library managed to find those two stories, as well as three others by the same author from the same time period in the same weekend supplement, and gave me exact references, with information about how to access the texts. I am really happy about that; that is what librarians are for.
The impressing part: The reply from the librarian was time stamped 52 minutes after the time stamp on my request!
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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I wonder how chatGPT would do on this question?
It would definitely give you an answer. But it would probably hallucinate one. 
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Librarian is an under valued profession.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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