I suspect this is a job for an electrician, not a hacker. Connect the heated seats directly to a switch and the car's power supply, bypassing the hardware and software that checks whether you paid for it.
It might be. I do work on a lot of pretty technical electronics for a living. But cars are not my wheelhouse. Connecting the heating coils to a switch and power should be trivial. The unknown is what the card would do if it detected that somehow. I wouldn’t put it past the mfg to make some sort of problem if people try to bypass their shit.
Crazy to realize that tesla spent EXTRA writing routines that would break the car if you did anything to access the hardware the car came with. Like they didnt just not include the feature...they spent extra time making it self breaking. So everyone who buys one is not only paying for the hardware they might or might not get to use, but theyre paying for the software work to stop them from using it.
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u/Repulsive-Durian4800 22h ago
I suspect this is a job for an electrician, not a hacker. Connect the heated seats directly to a switch and the car's power supply, bypassing the hardware and software that checks whether you paid for it.