ainsley_brader
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Was reading an article this morning about a 7 series BMW are working on.
It has the ability in theory at least (perhaps practice who knows) to (via its inbuilt cell phone) contact your nearest dealer to let them know when your car is ready for service etc, even tell them what parts are needed low brake pads etc, it could also tell BMW HQ if there were any serious faults with the vehicle such that any build problems should in theory appear sooner and software conflicts could be repaired without the car going into a worksahop and infact without the owner even knowing. This in theory should improve reliability of the brand and lower warranty work.
But where does it end in theory it could lower the red line if your oil was low, or perhaps they could say oh look you hit the limiter warratys void?
Bet it dont pay the bill either 
Anyway was an interesting article only I left it at work.
Ains
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Munchie
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wat paper fella?will b able to get it 2morrow 
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Welsh Dan
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The mclaren F1 already does that I beleive
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ainsley_brader
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quote:
Originally posted by Munchie
wat paper fella?will b able to get it 2morrow
motor industry management bet you cant
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Tiger
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The Mac F1 has an onboard modem, not sure to what extent it operates though. You would expect it to wipe your bum and clip you off for £670,000 mind you.
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ainsley_brader
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Originally posted by Dan Fearnley
The mclaren F1 already does that I beleive
Not to this extent i dont believe.
Didnt the mclaren use a system where you could plug it into a phone for dealers to read fault codes?
Didnt think they could actually alter engine parametewrs etc.?
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Adam-D
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they cud fix software probs on car via modem and they could make stuff work say turn it on wipers lights etc
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Munchie
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lol ok
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Ian
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The McLaren system allows engineers to analyse data remotely. Apparently a German owner had his connected to diagnose some problems at McLaren phoned him up telling him there must be a fault - the car had recorded daily use at nearly 200mph. "Ya", said the bloke, who had a long Autobahn journey to work. "That's correct". Hehehe.
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