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Originally Posted by Cyberdemon
Not sure what's not to believe, they keep track of your odometer through a bunch of computers. Some cars are smart enough to use the telematics to report that back to the dealer/manufacturer, but they have plenty of workarounds for different makes and models. Visit Brighton Beach, there are a bunch of nice Russian guys who will sell you a new telematics cluster for your MB to over-ride all of that functionality.
BMW's track that info using multiple disparate systems to try to over-ride that, but if you know how all those system's work any digital value stored on a chip can be tampered with.
And yes, this is a "New York" story. Lol.
Heres a youtube video of a guy giving step by step instructions for reprogramming the EEPROM on an older Lexus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...ature=emb_logo |
I know how it works, and I've dealt with cars when I worked in the insurance world that actually had this done.
I'm saying to me this sounds more like a cool story to tell people on the internet.
