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      06-06-2010, 10:22 AM   #861
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Originally Posted by dmurray14 View Post
Good find! Looks interesting. I see the two CAN transceivers on there (black boxes on the left) - so I'm sure you're right - it's probably just modifying the VIN CAN packets to make the CIC happy. Although I wonder what the implications are of this - for things like Assist maybe? Although I think emergency calls identify the vehicle by the VIN stored in the TCU itself - hopefully.
Assist is definitely bound to the TCU not the headunit.

Big advantage to this circuit is that it would also retain voice control; if voice control was already activated in the CIC since you're not doing any recoding.

I sent the US distributor of their products an email to check on availability, chances are they don't even know about it yet. Potentially would be a good group buy opportunity to get some units over here.

I wouldn't be surprised though if it was vaporware.
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