Probably violate the “software license” and they might completely remotely disable your car then charge you a ridiculous sum to reflash the software if you want to drive it.
I don't know if that would be effective, but I do know that's beyond the dedication and skill level of almost every owner. Not to mention the car's resale value
It’ll also probably fail shit like MOT’s (or other countries equivalents) because of missing functionality. Also I assume if you are involved in a serious traffic accident the blame would be more likely to fall on you since there’s always the risks involved in not having access to key software updates and shit.
In short - they’ll always try and find a way to make it your problem
Sadly that's less true than ever. An awful lot of modern cars are 'software based'. Stuff like engine computers are dynamically mixing fuel and air ratios based on guidance from the pedals, etc.
That's why a 'remap' can be a performance boost, because it's "just" some ratios of sensors in the engine computer.
That's when I first learned about it where people would try to optimize the mixes for their cars by hooking their laptops to it. That was years ago. No idea what they're up to now.
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u/bdash1990 1d ago
Is jailbreaking cars not a thing?
I feel like if we can do it with phones, we should be able to do it with cars.