Posted on 01/17/2022 8:14:40 PM PST by DoodleBob
My thoughts exactly. You see the people “cracking the ECUs” now to boost HP and other engine performance, it’s just a matter of time before it’s all the OTHER *CUs as well.
(Turn everything ON, turn the internet connection OFF)
A few years ago, they tried to use the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (which protects things like photos on the internet) to prevent you or your car-handy friend (or even local mechanics) from being able to repair your car.
The safest system is the actual metal key type with the transponder attached. Someone would have to steal your key, car jack you or order a key from the manufacturer or dealer. Thus the increase in car jackings.
The new remote electronic fobs are hackable. It is being done with laptops last I saw.
If its wireless it can be hacked.
Didn’t GM start this with their *OnStar option?
Basically IBM started it with their Main frame computers. By
Yes, it'll be expensive but, given the newest cars that dealers can't fix, I expect to drive it as long as I can still drive.
I parked it in 1997, fully expecting to put it back on the road eventually.
Oy vey!
“I’m going to repaint my 1995 Nissan pickup. My 1971 Volkswagen Westfalia Camper is presently in a restoration shop. Have you seen auction prices on drivable cars from the 60s and 70s? ==8-O
Yes, it’ll be expensive but, given the newest cars that dealers can’t fix, I expect to drive it as long as I can still drive.”
Good on you both! It is not expensive at all in comparison to the cost of a new car with interest and the huge one... “Depreciation”. The value of a new car drops about 30% as soon as you drive it off the lot.
I have a 2016 Honda with enough electronics AND not too much electronics to keep me happy. No push button start, which I like. The electronics are still on the ignition key. Has an analog tachometer and speedometer. You use a dial to tune in radio stations. A CD player I rarely use/ plus I can insert a flash drive with tunes on it.
Right after 2016 they got rid of CD players and went over to flash drives.
My Datsun 510 station wagon was my favorite. Lots of adventures with that one.
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Datsun+510+station+wagon&form=HDRSC2&first=1&tsc=ImageBasicHover
I have had relatively few problems with any of those electronic key fobs. The worst was when one accidentally got into the wash and it emerged clean but dead.
Supposedly, in my push button start car, if the battery ever went totally dead, there is a place on the steering column where you can physically hold the key and it will start. Never tried it, though.
My biggest gripe is that the car will occasionally complain that the battery needs to be replaced, even after a new battery is installed.
What’s interesting is that the car will complain about the battery when starting, but you can still do the lock/unlock function from hundreds of feet away with no problem.
It’s a good idea to buy a spare battery and keep it in the car just in case.
Controlled and managed serfs.
“and is one more mechanical element making cars more electronic and less mechanical, which I am not crazy about. (Except electronic fuel injection. I like that one.)”
Same here, been in the repair industry all my life and the only electronic advantages I have embraced are electronic fuel injection and ignition timing. If you added these to a Model T engine it would put out a whopping 25 Hp and get 30 MPG. lol
The T got anywhere from 13 to 21 MPG. All depending on how well the carb was tuned and how good the driver was at regulating the manual timing lever.
Interesting, this past year my Jeep Compass gave me a warning on the front screen that the battery in my key fob was getting low so I replaced it.
Another useless feature that I hate is that "Start/Stop" function that you can turn off every time you start your car. Mine stopped working this past year and I thought it was learning from my constantly turning it off. Apparently that wasn't the case since a month ago I got another warning on the dashboard screen that said it was not functioning properly and needed immediate service.
So I had to drop the car off at the dealer for the day and the fix was they had to replace one of the batteries. (I guess it has two under the hood)
Another pet peeve is the 270 page owners manual. You try to find instructions on some potential feature and it says “if equipped”. So now you have to figure out if the car is equipped with it or not.....
Enough people want all the bells and whistles and cool gadgets on a car, and the rest of us have to pay for that crap because it becomes standard equipment.
When I purchased my 2022 Chevy truck, I refused to subscribe to the OnStar network and the XM-radio network that the salesman offered during the final checkout after the sale. He was flabbergasted. Why would anyone not want those services? I told him that the new truck was my backup for when my 2002 TrailBlazer died (which IMO is the finest vehicle that GM has ever produced). He was not impressed but finally gave up on the sales pitch.
There is now room for an entrant to come in and sell cars. Actual vehicles. The modern automobile is actually a computerized sensor platform on wheels.
It’s not a car.
Dodge announced no more ICE vehicles. Corporate suicide.
I, too, have a 2002 Blazer. How many miles on yours?
I occasionally drive places without internet signals. Wouldn’t it be fun to get locked out of your car?
My current company car is a 2018 F150. It apparently has a lot of apps I can use. 110,000 miles later, I still haven’t gotten around to researching them.
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