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My current car is 15 years old. I dread a new car which is dependent on a windows live or iCloud account equivalent to unlock and operate. Can you still air ga

• ggm 2y ago
  For high end cars, only if you can find the sim. A friend was rung while driving by BMW (or Mercedes, I forget which) and told to go see his mechanic for a timing issue they'd detected by remote engine monitoring and reporting. He didn't even know they had a 2G data stream from the car. I think he assumed it was done at the regular services from a diagnostic port upload. Trucks have had live engine monitoring since they became half-a-million dollar assets. I would be amazed if a serious trucking enterprise didn't ask about the feed buying these beasts. Do we still demand a driver tachometer paper exercise?
  • 15155 2y ago
    Finding it isn't hard (and only one person has to do it), but we're assuming it continues to operate without the SIM.