Posted on 01/17/2022 8:07:13 AM PST by DoodleBob
One common cause of that is a low battery in the fob. I replaced mine and my mysterious door-openings stopped.
Thanks, I’ll remember that if it happens again. Only happened with that one truck, but if it happens with another, ill check that first.
More like
“you are not allowed access. the scale told me your BMI is to high”
“force the to replace the whole antilock device if they lose their allotted number of keys”
What is the allotted number of keys?
I remember back in the day I was courier.. I bought a brand new Geo Metro (50 MPG, no brainer)
dealer asked “do you want oil changes for 100 dollars a year?
How many oil changes a year?
one every 3000 miles, no limit to the number per year.
That’s the only automotive subscription I did ;)
300 bucks for 425,000 miles worth of oil changes. Then I got rear-ended the car totaled and the dealer had dropped the program for “commercial” drivers.
some fancier ones had battery protection, if it got to low it would start.
others had temp sensors and would start once in a while when it got really cold.
likely one of those two options setup in it.
It is not merely recurring revenue, it is revenue technology is/will be tying to your identity.
When it comes to the misuse of technology, I believe in Murphy’s Law - if it can happen it will happen.
I didn’t see in the article how much this will be.
I have that option but never use it and I would not pay for it either.
That was in a Fast & Furious Movie as part of the plot.
Yup, that sounds like what it was. It woild come on at like -20 or so (the house woild be snapping znd creaking from the cold, waking me up, then the engine starts up- first time it happened I didn’t know what was going on lol)
I c ant recall now. I had lost 2 keys from corrola, went and had another 2 made, (I still had 2 back home, but the way I lose things I needed to have more), and was told that I was “getting close to the limit”, and they explained what would happen if it went over the amount. This was from the dealer.
“What I am saying is that we had perfectly good working keys we could get for $1,”
The fob does much more.
Yes, I think you are missing the point. It used to,be cheap to,get a key, and as many replacement keys as you wanted for cars, but then so eone thought of a way to,force people to buy very expensive chipped keys and anti theft devises which have to be replaced if too many chipped keys are ordered (according to the dealer I spoke, with). The point I’m trying to make,is that it’s a money making scheme for the company. While it woild be fine to,offer it as an option to folks who want it, that isn’t the case, and they have forced everyone to get it now.
And now we see a new “service” where the car is controlled remotely- how,long before that service becomes mandatory too?
425K miles, that’s return on investment!
A friend of mine had a F150 he used for hunting and hauling. His daily commuter car, a Geo Metro. At one point the driver side door wouldn’t close, so he just tied bungee cord to it. Rust finally killed it.
-PJ
“The point I’m trying to make,is that it’s a money making scheme for the company. “
As was the electric starter
dealer never noticed (or didn’t care) but I replaced the engine/transmission with junk yard units a few times ;)
“It used to,be cheap to,get a key, “
Or just use a screwdriver.
“Acura is doing the same thing, but via an app.”
Toyota uses app. Item in article is an undocumented feature.
All my extremely expensive software turned to subscription costing me tens of thousands a year now. And now thanks to the “vaccinations” anyone who took it will be subscribing to pfizer just to stay alive and leave the house. Required monthly “boosters” are sure to be coming.
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