• phonetictalk (12/20/2012)


    I'd love to see cars offer the ability to download your data so you can analyze it yourself (or send it to 3rd parties who can analyze it).

    Welcome to the 90's my friend! I can not only program my RC cars ESC I can download data from it. I've had an OBD-II reader for a long time and it was worth every cent it cost. Those tend to be more geared towards emissions, etc but I've been able to use it to diagnose issues with a Jaguar and Mercedes I used to own and correct the problems myself. There have been "piggy back" ECU modules for years that allow you to trick the controller in to letting all kinds of things to happen. Point is, what you would like not only exists, it has for a long time.

    Cheers