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      03-21-2013, 11:44 AM   #104
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Originally Posted by ozzy1 View Post
Agreed. Now what would be cool is if you were able to collect some data besides mileage and try and build a predictive model. I am a data person as well. I really would love to see predictive maintenance items as alerts in the vehicle. It would be a fair amount of software development but would be phenominal to have the car (who has all the data) to provide alerts/recommendations based on statistical data of its own.
Well in the case of the water pump, the ECU throws Shadow codes indicating the pump is starting to fail. These codes could be translated to a warning. What you suggest will never happen because it would make the car too easy to be repaired by a non BMW mechanic.
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