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Basically, just buy a car from 2008-2012 in good condition with low miles.
by sneed_chucker 3y ago
Basically, just buy a car from 2008-2012 in good condition with low miles.
- mingus88 3y agoThis tracks my experience. My 2008 mini had an iPod adapter. The Bluetooth feature only supported BT calling. No GPS or touchscreens, plenty of knobs and physical switches. My 2012 Ford had Sync 2 which added Bluetooth audio for music, but otherwise only had a three line LCD for status The only modern feature I would really miss is adaptive cruise control, otherwise this is my sweet spot for auto tech
- itake 3y agoMy 2018 Honda Fit meets all these features. and it has Apple Car and rear view cameras.
- grepfru_it 3y agoSomething to be mindful of about connected cars.. they are monitoring you while in offline mode and will upload all of their contents when connected to the dealership system. This system is used by dealers for all service requests and independent repair shops for specific service requests.
- itake 3y agodo you have more information about this?
- grepfru_it 3y agoFord sync stores “breadcrumbs” of your cars telemetry data in the APIM module. This data is downloaded when connected to the ford IDS system. Ford then aggregates your data with your customer information. You can find this information in fords service documentation and from public comments from the ford ceo. I primarily work with Ford vehicles (comma.ai, self driving addons) so this is a personal knowledge dump from various service manuals, car hacking forums and the like
- fomine3 3y ago2008- is important because it's when average cars started installing ESP/ESC/VSC that helps winter driving much.