Halfway through he describes this as malicious compliance with the “right to repair” law. Apple and others are making a mockery of the law.
Halfway through he describes this as malicious compliance with the “right to repair” law. Apple and others are making a mockery of the law.
They lock the parking brake behind a paywall on the scanner, so you have to pay a subscription fee. Chrysler has the parking brake service mode on the vehicle for users. VAG, BMW, Nissan, Toyota, GM etc all do it. It just make servicing more expensive for consumers, because the cost all gets passed down.
Why is the parking brake involved with the computer at all…
It’s an electronic parking brake. Those are common now because a small switch takes up less interior space than a lever for a cable-actuated parking brake, and the computer can disengage the parking brake if it detects that the driver is attempting to drive with it activated. The computer is involved in brake pad replacement to tell the parking brake motor to open to its widest position to accept new pads, and calibrate itself to their thickness.
This requires a special adapter and software subscription rather than a button on the infotainment screen because Hyundai is engaging in rent-seeking and perhaps trying to direct business to its dealers.
Guess I’ll add this to the list of reasons I’m keeping my current car until it falls apart.
So if your brakes go out and you try to use the parking brake for a slow stop it won’t do anything anymore?
Correct, though the car in question here is electric and will almost certainly use the motors to slow the car to reuse that energy. The motors should be able to stop the car even if the hydraulic brakes fail, and probably more effectively than a mechanical parking brake.
Every vehicle I’ve had with an electric parking brake operated the same way. Hold the park button while moving and it starts clamping the parking brake down, let off the button and it starts to release. So you can basically PWM the parking brake in an emergency.
apparently some do and some don’t. or they require a particular cheat code when pressing the button, idk.
the point is, you can’t trust your parking brake to be an emergency brake anymore, you press a button and hope something happens
CapitalismProgress!Because OEMs have all decided that the mechanical one was insufficient…
Part of it is space savings or just making the interior more appealing. Why have this huge space dedicated to the parking brake (hand lever) and gear shift.
Welcome to the future…(toggle switch to the right is the parking brake)
My favorite is one of my parents vehicles…let’s put the gear shift next to the radio and the radio controls down by the HVAC.
Must be newer VAG vehicles then, mine definitely needed a scan tool to put on service mode. Though it’s also pretty old. I had a newer Mercedes and that had a hidden service menu that allowed me to do the brakes.
Probably like Chrysler, they were in bed together at one point. Just like merc, Chrysler has the junctions for network, similar aux battery, and so on. Most Chrysler you can just stomp the gas pedal 3 times to reset the oil light in addition to the instrument cluster shortcut.
Chrysler had hidden features before the merger too. The key dance showed drivetrain codes on my 300M. Holding specific buttons showed climate control codes
Yep, obdeleven let’s you go into the basic settings because most of the times they have the passwords in the app. On the newer cars, especially audi, the service reset (not the oil reset) is behind a paywall. Maybe depends.on the scanner, but the autel and topdon ones need an additional subscription, along with Nissan, Chrysler etc
Eww, microtransactions every time you want to do anything? Fuck that.
Or you can buy vcds if your VW is a bit older.
you are on lemmy pointing media bias as novelty? next you are going to shock us by telling us Reddit is mostly bots and sad power crazed admins
No…?