• Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    For sure – but I’m not asking if average joe-asshole can figure out which end of the screwdriver works best. I’m asking if there’s resources for where in the car the black boxes live. Service manuals - ect.

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      10 months ago

      There is. On my toyota it was called the DCM telematics module. Had its own fuse so it was super easy to disable.

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        10 months ago

        interesting! was there any persistent warnings or error messages that popped up or did it just keep on trucking without any user prompting?

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          10 months ago

          The car mic and one of the right side speakers stopped working. The ota updates also stopped arriving, and toyota stopped sending me emails about where my car had been / how long it was driven. The emergency button which calls the toyota help line is also broken now.

          There were no warnings from my car at all after i pulled the fuse.

          There’s some forum posts about rewiring the speaker back into the system - apparently you only need an extra plug, a little bit of wiring skills, and access through the glove box to get it working again. I havent personally done it yet, but ill get around to it at some point.