You just need an updated can blocker for BMWs with software post 2019, they are widely available and definitely work...
This is one of those tit for tat wars which will be never ending. It’s not as if it a new thing, 30 years ago people used to wind the odo back manually, it has always happened and always will.
It's getting easier if anything. Making everything digital and interconnected means it can all be hacked using a laptop and then the software stuck on the internet for anyone to use. Or made in to a simple plug and play device.
Depends. A lot of newer cars phone home these days.
So does a lot of other software, but you can simply prevent it doing that when you crack it.
Sounds like the same mismatch would have occurred regardless (as in, even if no mileage blocker was fitted) in that scenario if the ECU was rolled back? That behaviour is standard, and is why used clusters for every car for years are near worthless on places like eBay - they have to match the ECU mileage.I don't doubt it. Not something I've explicitly looked into , but had been noticed on a development car that had had the ECU rolled back to an early bench backup
In which case that becomes a dodgy car. I wouldn't trust the mileage on that car.
The point is surely that you wouldn't be able to tell...
You wouldn't know not to trust it.
The only possible way to live therefore is to be suspicious of everything and only ever buy cars brand new, and, never let them out of your sight, lest someone put a blocker in it when your head is turned!
so what do you do if your buying a second hand car that has had one of these mileage blockers on?
so what do you do if your buying a second hand car that has had one of these mileage blockers on?
sorry, i meant if it has been clocked, by having one on, how do you know the have clocked it , by say 5000 miles or what ever ?
I'd think most would get used for rather more than 5000 milessorry, i meant if it has been clocked, by having one on, how do you know the have clocked it , by say 5000 miles or what ever ?
I just thought as well, if a new car has a blocker installed, its unlikely the car will be serviced regularly enough unless the person gets the car serviced privately with no receipts, and then takes it in for the dealer service and its stamp once the odometer "finally" reads the correct mileage for the manufacturers interval.
I bet there are some poor cars out there with 30,000 miles on the original oil and filter, which are yet to have their 10,000 mile service or whatever. I bet those engines look looooovely inside.
I just thought as well, if a new car has a blocker installed, its unlikely the car will be serviced regularly enough unless the person gets the car serviced privately with no receipts, and then takes it in for the dealer service and its stamp once the odometer "finally" reads the correct mileage for the manufacturers interval.
I bet there are some poor cars out there with 30,000 miles on the original oil and filter, which are yet to have their 10,000 mile service or whatever. I bet those engines look looooovely inside.
That is all part of the reason that people use them...i think that it is massively widespread, but obviously it never really gets reported as nobody knows.
I doubt people are doing it to avoid paying for servicing etc, that doesn't make sense to me. It will be because of lease/finance agreements, or re-sale value on owned cars.