stevieturbo wrote:well, carrying a laptop to communicate with the ecu to enter the password, would be more cumbersome thatn removing the ecu.
Why not just wire in a simple kill switch like more normal people do ?
It's not that difficult to disable a kill switch if someone wants to...
But the fact is different:
- somebody, like me, has an in-car pc permanently connected, so no problem...
- race teams (bikes/cars/boats/prototypes) could have an interest in occasionally blocking their "keyless" ("unswitched"?) engines, and connect laptop just to block/unblock the ecu
- and ANY Motec buyer could have an interest to block his expensive daily-driver modded car before going to holidays for 2 weeks, for example
Many many solutions, for a little add-on feature that (i think) NO other ecu has, but trhat it can be easily added by programmers...