opt in to the insurance sharing and see what happens after a track weekend.
Which brings up the question…why did they even bother installing the TCU/Modem? What’s the purpose and need?
Yes, this is the best approach. Next question is where is the data recorder black box and how is that disabled?
It's the ECM, you can't.
Thanks!
Not sure, but I disabled my '22 using just the previously mentioned fuse. FordPass still shows me at the location where it was removed.
It’s amazing what information you can get from LexisNexis. I used to use it a ton in my previous job, more so for business entity searches (basically the old Dun & Bradstreet searches if anyone is familiar). Every once in a while I would have to run insurance searches and it blew my mind how much info there is. Probably as much as our “smart” phones collect on us.
Yes. And this is something that you are probably automatically enrolled in without anyone telling you about it. I don't recall anyone telling me about it. When I found out, I was furious. I pulled the plug on the whole damn thing and never looked back
Most likely. My car was built without the modem (I got a $20 credit!
), so I guess I lucked out there. I haven’t dug any deeper to see if it’s truly not there or if they just say it’s not.
on an s550, pulling the modem will not cause issues. If I read the codes, I will see that the modem listed, but it won't throw a CEL. It will just sit there in the background.
